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Abbot Academy Bulletin

Abbot Academy Alumnae Association

Associate Member of American Alumni Council

President
Mrs. Rolfe M. Kennedy
(Roberta Kendall)
Douglaston, N. Y.

Vice-presidents
Mrs. Frank C. d'Elseaux
(Virginia Gay)
Winchester, Mass.

Mrs. Douglas Donald
(Edith Johnson)
Andover, Mass.

Mrs. Ernest L. Tillson
(Gwendolyn Bloomfield)
Wellesley Hills, Mass.

OFFICERS, 1 944- 1 946

Clerk
Mrs. Edwin H. Goodwin
(Susan Hildreth)
Winchester, Mass.

Treasurer
Mrs. James E. Downs
(Laura Cheever)
Andover, Mass.

Social Secretary
Mrs. Reeve Chipman
(Constance Parker)
Andover, Mass.

Executive Secretary
Miss Marion R. McPherson
Andover, Mass.

ALUMNAE TRUSTEES

I 939~ I 945 . 1942-194^

Mrs. A. John Holden Miss Margaret Van Voorhis

(Polly Bullard) 304 Lexington Ave.

Middlebury, Vermont New York City, New York

ABBOT CLUB PRESIDENTS

Boston
Miss Irene Atwood
6 Lanark Rd.
Brookline, Mass.

Chicago
Mrs. J. Allen Lind
(Mary Simpson)
1239 Asbury Ave.
Winnetka, Illinois

Connecticut
Miss Sara G. Peck
20 Fairview Terrace
Derby. Conn.

Detroit
Mrs. Thomas A. Nalle
(Harriet Balfe)
1 2 1 1 Willow Lane
Birmingham, Michigan

Maine, Eastern
Miss Eleanor Bird
250 Broadway
Rockland, Maine

Maine, Western
Mrs. Harold Robinson
(Harriette Woolverton)
Cape Elizabeth, Maine

New York
Miss Charlotte Dane
21 East 37th St.
New York City, N. Y.

Ohio, Central
Mrs. Paul Meek
(Louise Norpell)
Worthington, Ohio

Ohio, Cleveland
Mrs. George Worthington
(Madeleine Fiske)
Chesterland, Ohio

Old Colony
Mrs. Richard M. Thompson
(Ruth Niles)
300 Woodlawn St.
Fall River, Mass.

Pittsburgh
Mrs. George H. Jackson
(Gertrude Miller)
515 No. McKean St.
Butler, Pa.

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ABBOT ACADEMY BULLETIN

Series 12

OCTOBER 1944

Issue i

Table of Contents

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Cover; Abbot Academy, September 1944
Frontispiece; School Officers
"Building Tomorrow Today"
Faculty Announcements ....

Abbot Board of Trustees

The Abbot Second Century Alumnae Fund

Honor A's; Cum Laude; New Alumnae Relatives

Alumnae Association

Abbot Alumnae in War Services

Abbot Clubs

Class Reunions (photographs)

Class Reunions (names

In Memoriam

Class News

Marguerite Hearsey

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THE EDITORIAL BOARD
JANE B. CARPENTER, 1892, honorary

constance parker chipman, 1906
marion r. Mcpherson, 1918

ROBERTA KENDALL KENNEDY, 1929, ex officio

Published four times yearly, October, February, May, and September, by Abbot Acad-
emy, Andover, Massachusetts.

Entered as second class matter December 12, 1933, at the post office at Andover, Massa-
chusetts, under the act of August 24, 191 2.

School Officers

Left to right— Mary Jane Kurth,
Treasurer Senior class; Holly Welles,
President Abbot Christian Association;
Hilary Paterson, President Student
Government; Beatrice Van Cleve,
{sitting), President Senior class.

Left to right — Hilary Paterson;
Cynthia Smith, Vice-president Abbot
Christian Association; Holly Welles;
Sally Spear, President Abbot Athletic
Association.

Courtesy Abbot Circle 19 U

"Building Tomorrow Today"

The 1 1 6th year of Abbot has opened most propitiously with one hundred
and eighty-one eager students, many of whom will be here for three or four
years, and all of whom, before we know it — before they know it — will become
alumnae. For some reason, I think for a good many reasons, Abbot and
schools like Abbot, as well as boys' preparatory schools, have been deluged
with applications this year, and the administrators of these schools are
astonished by the great demand for what we as a group have to give, or at
least what the public — the parents — think we have to give.

This is a sobering and challenging thought and educators do not enter-
tain it lightly. One has but to note the titles of new books and of articles in
magazines and glance at the programs of educational meetings and confer-
ences to be impressed with the great amount of thought that is being devoted
to the present and to the future of education. The alumnae cannot help being
glad and proud that their school is faced with this new demand, and hopeful
that Abbot can have a part in meeting it.

Call it sentiment, if you will, or nostalgia, but it is a very human trait to
turn back somewhat wistfully for a moment or two as a new school year
begins, to the days when you were young, and all of life seemed bounded by a
few acres of lawns and trees, and your greatest problems were those "or-
iginals" to be solved in geometry, your greatest fears that the Gargoyles or
the Griffins might lose that hockey game on Field Day! No doubt distance
does lend enchantment, but it is true that school days, on the whole, are
good days, and it would rejuvenate and reinspirit even the most war-weary
and worldly wise to spend a few hours, on one of these lovely fall days, walk-
ing on the school grounds and watching the girls as they play tennis, and
basketball, and hockey; or sitting in Abbot Hall at the morning chapel
service, listening to the beautiful volume of young voices singing "Gome,
my soul, thou must be waking," or "Rejoice, ye pure in heart."

One could not but be glad that these girls, and girls in other similar
schools are having such an opportunity, one could not but contrast their
good fortune with that of thousands, millions, of other young people, and be
confident that surely, with such a heritage these girls would be able to leaven
the life of their generation with sanity and gaiety, and good will.

But no one who has any responsibility for a school like this has any
illusion that ours is an easy job. We are constantly approached with the
question "What are you doing to help these girls to think clearly and act con-
structively for their part in the post-war world?" I have been asked to speak
on that subject very soon, before a group of women whose program for the
year is "Building Tomorrow Today." What I shall tell them may sound
very simple, very undramatic and unexciting, but on the whole it is summed
up by Ruskin in this way: "You do not educate a man by telling him what he

knew not, but by making him what he was not." And that is the goal toward
which Abbot continues to direct its efforts. How well we succeed we shall
probably never really know, but I imagine that there are many who read
this Bulletin who can say, "I may have learned some algebra and Latin
and chemistry at Abbot, but it's a struggle for me to explain anything in any
of those subjects to Junior or to Sister, yet I am sure I became a different
person during those years at Abbot, and even if I have forgotten a lot I once
learned, I have a notion that the change in me was somehow due to a com-
bination of all I had to do in those days, all that influenced me there, in addi-
tion, of course, to what my parents had done or tried to do with me before
I went away to school!"

Dorothy Dix (such a wise lady, at times!) put it this way in one of her
columns this summer, advocating boarding school for girls: "And whether
Arabella acquires any book learning or not when she goes off to school, she
does get some education she can never get at home. She learns to stand on her
own feet, she learns how to give and take, how to make friends, and has her
self-esteem deflated."

Not a bad beginning as preparation for that post-war world! And yes,
all of this happens at Abbot, but much more. There is a well-balanced, a
rationed, diet of play and work, of physical exercise, mental discipline, and
religious influence. Moreover, there is constant exposure to art and music, as
well as the gentler amenities of life. Theoretically, one can make a good case
for our school and others like it, in answer to the question "What are you
doing. . . . ?" And yet one can never be too confident of the results. Unless one
could take the same girl and educate her twice — once one way and once
another — one can never be wholly sure that what she has become is the re-
sult of this school or that. It is, however, when the alumnae, analyzing their
own pasts, testify to their own conviction of the moulding influence of their
school, that teachers and principals and trustees and, I am sure, "all the
saints who from their labors rest" experience a peculiar joy, and are freshly
persuaded that what we are doing is contributing in some measure at least, to
the "Building of Tomorrow Today."

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Faculty Announcements

Miss Catherine Padwick takes the place of Miss Dorothy Baker, who re-
cently returned to England. Miss Padwick (who is an Englishwoman by
birth) is a graduate of Boston University, has an M.A. from Middlebury
College, and comes to Abbot from seven years at the Grier School in Birm-
ingham, Pennsylvania, where she was Head of the English Department.

Miss Edith Hedin, Radcliffe A.B. 1943 and Yale University M.A., 1944,
will be an assistant in the English Department.

Miss Elinor Litchfield Strickland of Amherst, Mass., comes as teacher of
Dramatics and Administrative Assistant. Miss Strickland is a graduate of the
Leland Powers School and has had wide experience both in teaching and in
administration of recreational activities. She was for a number of years the
Dramatic and Recreational Director at Federal Hill House in Providence,
Rhode Island, and she has been more recently Director of Dramatics at the
Oak Grove School, Vassalboro, Maine. Miss Strickland will work primarily
with the younger classes, while Mrs. Bertha Morgan Gray will continue her
teaching of Speech and the directing of the plays for the two upper classes.
Miss Strickland will also be an assistant in various general administrative
matters.

Mr. Arnold Kenseth, Minister of the Congregational Church in Ballard-
vale, will assume Mr. Bernard Drew's classes in Bible, as Mr. Drew has moved
to assume the duties of a church in Framingham. Mr. Kenseth is a graduate
of Bates College and of the Harvard Divinity School.

Miss Katherine Macdonald, a 1944 graduate of the Boston-Bouve School
of Physical Education, has been appointed Assistant in the Physical Educa-
tion Department in place of Miss Ruth Elvedt who has received an appoint-
ment at Mt. Holyoke College.

Miss Eleanor Little, A.B. University of Kansas City, 1940, M.A. Rad-
cliffe, October 1944, is to be Librarian succeeding Miss Lucretia Hildreth,
who left to be married.

Dr. William G. Thompson, who has been honorably discharged from the
Navy, is returning to his Andover practice, and will resume his position as
school physician in place of Dr. Harold R. Kurth, who took on this added re-
sponsibility as a "war service."

News of Past Faculty

Dorothy Baker has returned to her home in England. Address: 177
Englishcombe Lane, Bath, Somerset, England.

Rev. Bernard T. Drew is now minister of the Grace Congregational
Church, Framingham.

Ruth Elvedt is assistant in Physical Education at Mt. Holyoke College.

Lucretia Hildreth was married on September 9, to Dr. Erwin J. Saxl.
Address: 77 William St., Providence, R. I.

Jean Nevius is teaching English at Kent Place School, Summit, N.J.

Abbot Board of Trustees

Left to right: Irving Southworth (Clerk); Constance P. Chipman, George Abbot,
Polly Bullard Holden, George Sawyer, Marguerite Hearsey (Principal), E.
Barton Chapin (President), Margaret Morriss, Burton S. Flagg (Treasurer).
Absent members: Mira Wilson, Margaret VanVoorhis, Rev. Sidney Lovett.

The Alumnae Trustees announce herewith the dates of forthcoming
meetings of the Abbot Board of Trustees. So much interest concerning the
school was expressed in the recent questionnaires that we feel confident
many alumnae may wish to write us for additional information. We shall
welcome questions or comments; remember us, — we are your elected rep-
resentatives.

Meetings are scheduled for October 5; December 7; March 2, 1945.

Polly Bullard Holden
Middlebury, Vermont

Margaret Van Voorhis
304 Lexington Ave.
New York City, N. Y.

THE ABBOT

2nd Century
ALUMNAE FUND

Class Fund Secretary, 1944

Nancy L. McIvor

Smith College
Northampton, Mass.

THE

1944

APPEAL

Total contributions October 1st

$1789.

Reunion Gifts

Glass

1889

$90.

Class

1904

$54-

Class

!9 J 9

$59-

Glass 1928

(U.S.W.S.

$18.

Bond)

Total

$221

Your gift is the expression of a
desire to share with the trustees
their vision for Abbot based on the
principles held as fundamental to
true happiness by the founders of
the Academy.

'The primary objects to be aimed
at in the School shall ever be to
regulate the tempers, to improve the
taste, to discipline and enlarge the
minds, and form the morals of the
youth who may be members of it.
To form the immortal mind to habits
suited to an immortal being, and to
instil principles of conduct and form
the character for an immortal destiny,
shall be subordinate to no other care.
Solid acquirements shall always have
precedence of those which are merely
showy, and the useful of those which
are merely ornamental."

Honor A's, 1944

Left to right: Marianna Hubbard, Patricia Damon, Aagot Hinrichsen, Elisabeth
Golson, Alva Houston, Miss Hearsey, Nancy Mclvor, Janet Hitchcock,
Elizabeth G. Rich.

Cum Laude 1944

Jacqueline Calvin Nancy Mclvor

Marjorie Hamilton Carol Paradise

Janet Hitchcock Katherine Pendleton

Margaret Travis

New Alumnae Relatives, September 1944

Brigid Anne Bisgood, distant cousin of Ann Bacon Reinheimer, 1 942

Nancy Elliot, sister of Mary Elliot Brown, 1 938

Nancy Luse Hamilton, sister of Diantha, 1942

Elizabeth Howe, sister of Margaret, ex 1 946

Mary Louise Howe, daughter of Esther Van Dervoort Howe, 1 9 1 6

Sally Monroe Humason, niece of Sarah Waters Monroe Humason, 1 9 1 7

Andrea Lyons, daughter of Ruth Moore Lyons, 191 6; sister of Ruth S. Lyons, 1944

Janet Dryden Mclvor, sister of Nancy L. Mclvor, 1944

Elizabeth Ann Mitchell, sister of Janet, 1945

Helen Taylor, cousin of Mary Jordan Taylor, 1 945

Genevieve Barbara Wright, sister of Sylvia Wright Poole, 1936

Alumnae Association

Annual Meeting of the Abbot Alumnae Association May 27, 1944

Seventy alumnae from classes of '84- '43,
met in Abbot Hall, on May 27, at 2.30 p.m.
The meeting was called to order by the presi-
dent, Mrs. Roberta Kendall Kennedy, who
called for the following reports. The clerk's
report, read by Mrs. Constance P. Chipman,
clerk pro-tem, in the absence of Mrs. Susan
Hildreth Goodwin. The treasurer's report
was read by Miss Marion McPherson, in the
absence of Mrs. Laura Cheever Downs. The
report of the auditor was read and ac-
cepted.

The executive secretary, Miss McPherson,
spoke of her work in the alumnae office,
with special emphasis on the generous re-
sponse of the alumnae to the Second Century
Alumnae Fund, the sum of Si 606.60 having
been contributed to date. The social secre-
tary, Mrs. Chipman, urged alumnae to send
more personal news for the Bulletin, and
also reported the activities of the Abbot
Clubs. The list of thirty alumnae whose
deaths had been reported during the year
was then read.

The alumnae then greatly enjoyed the
yearly opportunity of receiving the senior
class into the Alumnae Association. Follow-
ing the ceremony of presentation by Miss
Hearsey, and acceptance by the president of
the Alumnae Association, all alumnae new
and old, joined in singing ' 'Abbot Beautiful.' '
It was inspiring to see the attractive gradu-
ates, who soon would be taking their places
and responsibilities as active alumnae.

The highlight of the meeting was Miss
Hearsey 's enjoyable report on the state of
the school. She closed her talk with an invi-
tation to the alumnae to be the guests of
the school at the Saturday night dinner.

Mrs. Polly Bullard Holden, Alumna
Trustee, in a brief report, gave some hitherto
unreported details of school activities. In
closing she expressed the regret of all in the
absence of Margaret Van Voorhis.

Mrs. Kennedy then called for the reports
from the chairmen of the reunion classes.

1889 was represented by Mrs. Annis
Spencer Gilbert. The fifty-five year class
was notable as it had two granddaughters
in the senior class. Elizabeth Rich, grand-

daughter of Mrs. Gilbert, and daughter of
Helen Gilbert Rich, 191 4; and Nancy
Emerson, granddaughter of Lilian Ellis
Emerson. The other members present were:
Lilian Ellis Emerson, E. Kathleen Jones,
Alice Newton Judd, Flora Mason and
Martha Hart Moore.

1894, the fifty-year class had three repre-
sentatives, Ida Cushing, Myra Hayes, and
Marian Lees.

1899 na d one member, Lilian Mooers
Smith, present.

1904, the forty year class held an enthusi-
astic reunion. Especial guests at their lunch-
eon were Miss Nellie Mason, and Mrs.
Mabel Bacon Ripley. Those present were:
Helen Abbott Allen, Beatrice Gunter Dab-
ney, Sally Field, Helen B. French, Julia
Wallace Gage, Emily Stearns Giese, Mary
Davis Lee, Bess Winsor Pettit and Mary
Byers Smith.

1909, Janet Gorton spoke for the three
present, Marjorie Hills Allen, Edith Gard-
ner Merriam, and Hannah Haines Webb.

1 9 1 4, the thirty year class had three repre-
sentatives, Elsie Gleason Buckingham, Helen
Gilbert Rich, whose daughter Elizabeth
was in the graduating class, and Alice
Sweeney.

1 91 9, the twenty-five year class always
makes a special effort for reunion, and their
day was most successful. Present were: Mary
Button Allen, Jane Holt Atkinson, Cora
Erickson Ayers, Grace Leyser Boynton,
Frances Moses Cheever, Mildred Frost
Eaton, Marea Blackford Fowler, Beth New-
ton King, and Elizabeth Sjostrom Thomson.

1924, Polly Bullard Holden and Ruth
Kelley Perry met for their twentieth reunion.

1929, Lois Hardy Daloz reported for the
nine who attended their fifteenth reunion.
Katherine Kennedy Beardsley, Beth Os-
borne Honeyman, Barbara Folk Howe,
Roberta Kendall Kennedy, Polly Francis
Loesch, Virginia Gay d'Elseaux, Peg
Neville Batchelder, and Katherine Blunt
Polsby.

1934, Their tenth reunion brought back
six members: Mary Moore Gustafsoa, Sally
O'Reilly Loria, Frances Heffernan Moore,

Ada Carlson Prescott, Katharine Damon
Reed, Peggy Morrill Wilkins.

1939, Carol Parker Armour, Barbara
Bobst Judge and Virginia Rice met for their
fifth reunion.

1943, The first year reunion was well at-
tended, those present being Mimi Beckman,
Peggy Bennett, Catherine Feeney, Elizabeth
Garratt, Ann Hoyt, Marjorie Lehmann,
Cornelia McMurray, Anne Pearson, and
Louise Swenning Weinrich.

The report of the nominating committee
was given by the chairman, Mrs. Mildred
Frost Eaton. The clerk was empowered to
cast one vote, and the following officers
were declared elected for the years 1944-
1946. President, Mrs. Roberta Kendall
Kennedy; Vice-presidents, Mrs. Virginia
Gay d'Elseaux, Mrs. Gwendolyn Bloomfield
Tillson, Mrs. Edith Johnson Donald; Clerk,
Mrs. Susan Hildreth Goodwin; Treasurer,
Mrs. Laura Cheever Downs; Remaining in
office, the Social Secretary, Mrs. Constance
Parker Chipman; Executive Secretary, Miss
Marion R. McPherson.

Mrs. Kennedy then expressed the apprecia-
tion of the Association to the Tea and Flower
Committee, who made the Alumnae Head-
quarters very attractive. Chairman, Mrs.
Frances McTernen Coan, Mrs. Barbara
Healey Holland, Mrs. Gisela Bolten Hogan,
and Mrs. Barbara Lord Mathias.

The meeting was then declared adjourned
until next year, and the alumnae met for
refreshments at the Alumnae Headquarters.

TREASURER'S REPORT*

1 943- 1 944

Receipts

June 1, 1943

Balance in Andover National

Bank

$600.31

Received from Bazaar for United

Nations

42.60

Interest from Invested Fund

251-56

Check for Centennial Plates

3-75

Check from past faculty member

5.00

Refund on Secretary's travelling

expenses

6.00

Total receipts

$909.22

Expenditures

American Alumni Council dues

$30 . 00

American Alumni Council Hand-

book

3-5o

Andover Press, 600 cards

7.00

Copy of 1943 Year Book

3-75

Commencement Tea

2.50

Senior Coffee party

10.00

Alumnae Secretary's expenses

Abbot Clubs

42.75

Total expenditures

99-5o

Balance in Andover National

Bank

$809.72

Totai $909.22

Respectfully submitted,
Laura Cheever Downs,

Treasurer
*This report is condensed for publication.

Abbot Alumnae in War Services

WACS

Anne Cleveland '33
Edith Keller '30
Madeleine Proctor '38
Christine Robinson '40
Dorothy Walworth '38
Muriel Baker Wood ' 1 5

WAVES

Isabel Arms '32

Frances Howard O'Brien '25

Patricia Pierpont '42

Helen Ripley '30

Grace S. Vibberts '37

Winifred Wiglesworth '40

{This list includes all who are so far known

WAFS

Kip Humphrey '36

MARINES

Joan Belden '41
Helen Craig '42

RED CROSS OVERSEAS

Barbara Bellows '39
Charlotte Boynton '37
Charlotte Gowing Cooper ' 1 1
Louise Hyde '28
Annette Robin '33
Mary V. Spaulding '40
Ella Stonebraker Bennett '27
to the Alumnae Office. Please report additional names.)

Abbot Clubs

BOSTON (1892): President Miss Irene
At wood, 6 Lanark Rd., Brookline; Vice-
presidents, Mrs. Gwendolyn Bloomfield Till-
son, Mrs. Elizabeth Whitaker Warren;
Recording Secretary, Mrs. Ruth Baker Johnson;
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Marion Ireland
Conant; Treasurer, Mrs. Margaret Nay Gram-
kow; Auditor, Mrs. Helen Allen Henry; Pro-
gram Chairman, Mrs. Ruth Tyler Smith;
Directors (1943- 1945), Mrs. Elizabeth Sage
Batchelder, Mrs. Faith Chipman Parker,
Mrs. Alice Schultz Valkenburgh; Directors
(1944- 1 946), Mrs. Katherine Allen Babson,
Mrs. Martha E. Ransom Tucker, Priscilla
Richards.

A meeting will be held November 1 8 at the
College Club, at 2 P.M. Coffee-dessert, fol-
lowed by speaker.

CHICAGO ( 1 92 1 ) : President, Mrs. J. Allen
Lind (Mary Simpson); Secretary, Mrs. Edith
Bullen Creeden, 461 Hill Rd., Winnetka;
Treasurer, Mrs. Margaret Hall Walker.

CONNECTICUT (1923): President, Miss
Sara Peck, 20 Fairview Ter., Derby; Secre-
tary-Treasurer, Mrs. Virginia Lawton Cheney,
36 Morse St., Hamden.

DETROIT (1922): President, Mrs. Thom-
as Nalle (Harriet Balfe) ,1211 Willow Lane,
Birmingham.

MAINE, EASTERN (1926): President,
Miss Eleanor Bird, 250 Broadway, Rockland;
Vice-President, Mrs. Frances McDougall Mc-
Loon; Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. Annetta
Richards Bryant, Round Pond.

MAINE, WESTERN (1922): President,
Mrs. Harold Robinson (Harriette Woolver-
ton), Cape Elizabeth; Treasurer, Mrs. Char-
lotte Baldwin Frohock,

NEW YORK (1898) : President, Miss Char-
lotte Dane 1936, 21 East 37th St., New
York City; Vice-Presidents, Mrs. Eunice
Meigs Pease 1921, Miss Gertrude Holbrook
1925; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Ruth Cann
Baker 1931; Recording Secretary, Mrs. Despina
Plakias Messinesi 1929; Treasurer, Miss
Charlotte Boynton; Directors, Mrs. Helga
Lundin Buttrick 1923, Mrs. Laura Scudder
Williamson 1924, Mrs. Helen Bradley
Hodgkinson 191 9.

The Fall meeting will be held on Novem-
ber 25.

OHIO, CENTRAL (1921): President,
Secretary, Mrs. Paul Meek (Louise Norpell),
5600 Meek Rd., Worthington.

OHIO, CLEVELAND (1927): President,
Mrs. George Worthington (Madeleine Fiske),
Chesterland, Ohio.

A supper party meeting was held at the
home of Mrs. Clara Hukill Leeds, on Octo-
ber 5. Besides the election of a new president,
the past president, Mrs. Dorothy Gilbert
Bellows received many good wishes on her
move to Chicago, and her daughter, Barbara,
'39, received gifts of bits of equipment to
help on her Red Cross overseas duties.

OLD COLONY (1924): President, Mrs.
Richard M. Thompson (Ruth Niles), 300
Woodlawn St., Fall River; Secretary and
Treasurer, Mrs. Louise Thompson Cor tr ell,
372 Madison St., Fall River.

A meeting will be held October 26, at the
Taunton Inn. Hostesses: Mrs. Mabel Rhodes
Manter, Miss Flora Mason.

PITTSBURGH (1921): President, Mrs.
George H.Jackson (Gertrude Miller), Butler,
Pa.; Secretary, Mrs. Joseph M. Browne (Eliza
Atwell), 529 Pine Rd., Sewickley.

Class Reunion

MAY 27, 1944 I

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(See photographs on pages 12 and 13)

1889
Left to right: Annis Spencer Gilbert, Alice Newton Judd, Martha Hart Moore, Flora Mason,
Lilian Ellis Emerson, Kathleen Jones.

1894
Left to right: Ida Cushing, Myra Hayes, Marion G. Lees.

1904
Left to right: top row: Bess Winsor Pettit, Emily Stearns Giese, Julia Wallace Gage, Sarah Field,
Helen French, Mary Byers Smith, Helen Abbott Allen, Beatrice Gunter Dabney. Lower
row: Mary Davis Lee, Mabel Bacon Ripley, Nellie Mason.

1909
Left to right: Marjorie Hills Allen, Janet Gorton, Hannah Haines Webb, Edith Gardner Merriam.

1919

Left to right: Jane Holt Atkinson, Cora Erickson Ayers, Mary Button Allen, Marea Blackford

Fowler, Elizabeth S;ostrom Thomson, Millie Frost Eaton, Grace Leyser Boynton, Frances
Moses Cheever, Beth Newton King.

1929
Left to right: Betty Brown Guild, Katherine Blunt Polsby, Barbara Folk Howe, Marguerite

Neville Batchelder, Lois Hardy Daloz, Katherine Kennedy Beardsley, Beth Osborne Honey-
man, Polly Francis Loesch, Roberta Kendall Kennedy.

1934
Left to right, top row: Peggy Morrill Wilkins, Mabel Savage Van Stone, Ada Carlson Prescott.

Lower row: Katharine Damon Reed, Mary Moore Gustafson, Sally O'Reilly Loria.

1943
Left to right, top row: Peggy Bennett, Cornelia McMurray, Anne Pearson, Elizabeth Garratt.

Lower row: Ann Hoyt, Louise Swenning Weinrich, Mary Alice Beckman, Catherine

Feeney, Marjorie Lehmann.

Note : Copies of the class photographs may be ordered through the Alumnae Office.

In Memoriam

Past Faculty

Mrs. Ruth Thayer Burnham, wife of the
Rev. Dr. Edmund A. Burnham, died on May
10, in Essex, following a long illness. Pos-
sessed of a beautiful mezzo-soprano voice
she was an outstanding singer of her time.
For twelve years, 1922 to 1934, she was the
vocal teacher at Abbot. Keen minded, alert
and lover of young people she was known
as "Mother Burnham." One son, Robert,
married Winifred Dudley, Abbot 1928.
They have four children, of whom Dr.
Burnham writes, "The grandchildren all
have the gift of voice and song, a beautiful
inheritance, and an abiding love and ad-
miration for their grandmother."

Mrs. Gladys Brannigan, teacher of Art at
Abbot from 1936 to 1937, died on April 24,
in New York City.

1872

Eva Myrtella Whitcomb, widow of S.
Ripley Bartlett, died on July 4, in Concord.

1878

Elizabeth George, widow of William A.
Burns, died on August 1 7, in Danvers.

1889

Alice Conant, wife of Fred T. Wadleigh,
died on June 4, in Milford, N. H.

1883

Katherine Prichard, widow of Dr. William
H. Hoyt, died on June 1 , in Wenham.

Martha O. Coffin died on August 10, in
Ann Arbor, Michigan.

1911

Bessie May Rand, wife of Charles Waldo
Morrison, died June 5, in New York City.
She was the sister of Ethel Rand, 1913.

Class News

1883

Edwin A. Bayley, husband of Lucia Wat-
kins, died on June 13.

1886

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Frank W.
Darling (Mary Gorton), Hampton, Virginia.

1860-1891

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Ernest C.
Young (Ruth Childs), 6 Emerson St.,
Brookline.

1889
Fifty-Fifth Reunion

Of the fifteen members who graduated in
1889, ten are still living, which we consider
a remarkable record. To be sure, our eye-
sight is dimmed, also our hearing; we have
fewer teeth and we walk with canes, and
somehow we can't remember things as we
used to, but we still are indomitable in
spirit, and in loyalty to Abbot traditions.

Four of our graduates were present at this
reunion: Lilian Ellis Emerson, Kathleen
Jones, Annis Spencer Gilbert, Martha Hart
Moore; and two non-graduates: Alice
Newton Judd and Flora Mason. We deeply
regretted the absence of our beloved presi-
dent, Mary Peabody, who also was unable
to be present at our 50th reunion, and of
"Mollie" Hutchings, Evalena French Ander-
son, Alice Joy Arms, Edith Jackson Lewis and
Dora Mason McLaughlin. Her husband,
James B. McLaughlin died on September 5.
The last named lives in California and
transportation was impossible. The others
were kept at home for various reasons, May
and Mollie by failing eyesight, Edith, by the
illness of her husband, Gen. Lewis.

Our twelve married graduates have pro-
duced more than forty grandchildren. In-
cidentally two of these graduated from
Abbot at this 1944 Commencement; Nancy
Emerson and Elizabeth Gilbert Rich.

Of the three unmarried members, Mary
Peabody and Mary Hutchings have influ-
enced as teachers forty-five or fifty years of
pupils, and are retired on well-earned pen-
sions; Mary Peabody from Teachers College,
Columbia University and Mary Hutchings
from the Bangor, Maine, High School. The
third, Kathleen Jones, has retired from
forty-five years of library work, during part

of which she was pioneer in institution
library service. She is the author of two books
on hospital, and one on prison libraries.

Quite out of the ordinary is the service
conducted by Alice Joy Arms' daughter,
Betty and her husband, Dr. John McKee
Olds, who are carrying on almost single-
handed at present, a one hundred bed hos-
pital at Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland, a
remote place and the only hospital for many,
many miles. Betty is a trained nurse and not
only assists her husband in the hospital,
cares for their little family, but goes on long
dog-sled rides in the winter to aid the sick
and suffering inhabitants of this cold and
remote country.

It goes without saying that most of us are
more or less active in Red Cross and other
war relief work. We have six sons and at
least five grandsons in the various services, to
say nothing of seven nephews and grand-
nephews of two of our unmarried graduates.

In closing this report we pay tribute to
the memory of Lizzie Ryder Stiles, who was
with us at our happy Fiftieth reunion, but
who passed away December 14, 1940. The
years take toll of us, but we who are left
draw closer together.

Annis Spencer Gilbert

Reunion Chairman

1891

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Charles E.
Townsend (Lena Hinchman), 37 LeRoy
Place, Newburgh, New York.

1892

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Jane B. Car-
penter, School St., Andover.

Charles P. Carter, husband of Emily
Staats, died on May 3, in Glastonbury,
Conn.

1893

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Harry R.
Miles (Anna Nettleton) , 4 Rockledge Drive,
Stamford, Conn.

Dr. Lombard C. Jones, husband of Nina
Dutton, died on August 1 7, in Falmouth.

1894

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Doremus
Scudder (Mabel Bosher), 133 West 9th St.,
Claremont, California.

1895

Frances Edwards Quayle had as her guest
on her ranch in Hayward, California,
Louise Nor pell Meek.

Grace Simonton Young gave an Abbot tea
in her home in Camden, Maine, this sum-
mer. Present were: Miss Dorothy Hopkins,
former librarian at Abbot, Betty Babb Fox-
well and Frances McDougall McLoon.

1896

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Henry V.
Conant (Ruth Loring), 914 High St., Ded-
ham.

Sara Jackson Smith's grandson has com-
pleted his basic training in the Air Corps.

Carol Mathews Mohn and her husband
spent the summer at Buck Hill Falls, Penn.

Grace Pearson Preston's son, Com. Alex-
ander Preston, has been in the S. W. Pacific
for over a year. He has been on several
different islands and has had wonderful ex-
perience, as his hospitals have been equipped
with splendid operating rooms.

1897

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Alexander
Bunce (Gertrude Ware), R.F.D. 1, Rock-
ville, Conn.

1898

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Robert W.
Dunbar (Selina Cook), 362 Danforth St.,
Portland, Maine.

Nellie Flint Rand is chairman of Produc-
tion at the Andover Red Cross Head-
quarters. She has two grandchildren, one to
each son; Lee Abbott Rand, four, and Susan
Appleton Rand, eleven months old.

Edith Tyer McFayden has a small grand-
daughter.

A recent issue of the New York "Times
Magazine, in an article on play equipment
for children gives suggestions from Sara
Patrick, as an authority on the subject.
Miss Patrick, long an instructor in Industrial
Arts at Teachers College, Columbia, was
one of the prime movers in the organization
of the Industrial Arts Cooperative Service in
New York, and is now president of that
organization. A few years ago she wrote an
article for the Bulletin, on the importance
of broadening one's outlook and interests by
becoming acquainted with different peoples
and their cultures, and thus gaining a sense
of belonging to a world society.

1899

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Brainerd E.
Smith (Lilian Mooers), 116 East St., Me-
thuen.

1900

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Arthur P.
Spear (Grace Chapman), 156 Winchester
St., Brookline.

1901

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Helen Hale,
86 Knox St., Lawrence.

Mrs. Caroline Flagg Emerson, widow of
Dean Charles F. Emerson of Dartmouth
College, and mother of Emily Emerson Day,
died on August 12, in Hanover, N. H.

1902

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Hezekiah
Poore (Mildred Mooers), 37 Ames St.,
Lawrence.

Miriam Carpenter, who resigned as Dean
at Wheaton College last spring, received a
most appreciative testimonial in the Wheaton
Alumnae Quarterly. We quote briefly, "Any
general definition can give no hint of the
warmth and kindliness, the wisdom and
patience, the humor and spriteliness of this
friendly person who for fifteen years has pre-
sided over the southeast corner of the first
floor Administration Building, .... She has
given us her well-considered counsel, has
stood by her decisions, and has won in re-
turn our respect."

Catherine Deacon Palmer's husband, Hon.
Victor Claude Palmer, died on September,

!943-

Margaret Eshbaugh Adam's husband,
Charles H. Adams, died on May 15. Mrs.
Adams has moved from Portland to Vir-

ginia.

1904

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. William O.
Pettit (Elizabeth Winsor), 186 Livingston
Ave., New Brunswick, N. J.

Lawrence Allen, husband of Helen Ab-
bott, died suddenly on June 9. He was the
father of Helen Allen Henry 1932.

1906

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Evaline Korn,
37 LeRoy Place, Newburgh, New York.

Molly Jordan Goodrich's daughter Joan,
was married on July 29, to Frederic Allison
Lang, in Newburgh, N. Y.

Persis Mackintire Carr's son, Lt. (j.g.) Win-
throp Carr, was married to Alice Skelton,
on May 13, in College Park, Maryland.

Sarah Hincks' mother, Mrs. Edward Y.
Hincks, died in Tuscon, Arizona, on June 8.

Rena Porter Hastings is enjoying her first
grandchild, Lawrence Porter Hastings Jr.,
born May 18. Hudson Jr. is a Lt. with the
Ordnance Dept. of the navy. Lawrence has
been overseas since August.

1907

Mabel Rhodes Manter was elected in the
spring, president of the Taunton Woman's
Club.

, Louise Richards Rollins' youngest daugh-
ter, Sydney, has joined the Marines.

1908

Esther Parker Lovett's daughter Eugenia
was married on September 21, to Lt. Eric
Fowler West, AAF.

1909

Agnes Bertha Ewart has retired as Resi-
dence Director at the H. H. McCormick
Memorial Residence of the Y.W.C.A., in
Chicago, and is now living in Washington,
D. C.

Louise Norpell Meek is now president of
the Central Ohio Abbot Club. Her younger
daughter Emily Bradley has entered Pratt
Institute in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Edith Gardner Merriam's husband George
H. Merriam, and her father Fred L. Gard-
ner, died within twenty minutes of each
other August 7, at their summer home,
Dennysville, Maine.

Frances Wright Kimball's son, Frederick,
has been discharged from the Canadian
army according to agreement entered into
with the U.S. army.

1910

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Myron G.
Darby (Ethel Reigeluth), no Tanglewylde
Ave., Bronxville, N. Y.

Dora Heys Pym's daughter Constance,
was married to Maurice B. Weiss, on Sep-
tember 16, at Topsfield.

1911

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Douglas
Donald (Edith Johnson), 8 Carisbrooke
St., Andover.

1912

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Joseph L.
Hyde (Ruth Draper), Kenmore Rd.,
Bloomfield, Conn.

1913

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Margaret
Wilkins, 279 North Euclid Ave., Pasadena,
California.

1915

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Eugene
Bernardin (Mary Flynn), n Abbot St.,
Andover.

1916

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. James E.
Downs (Laura Cheever), Andover.

Esther Kilton acted as secretary at Eu-
genia Parker's camp this summer, and the
daughters of Marion Selden Nash and Emma
Stohn Larrabee, were campers.

Esther Van Dervoort Howe's daughter
Mary, has entered Abbot this Fall.

Dorothy Pillsbury Bartlett has three sons
in the service. Richard Jr., Ensign USNR
Air Corps, was married to Frances Fisher,
October 6, 1943, in California. Joseph is
V12 Cornell University, and Thomas is an
Aviation Cadet at Colgate College.

1917

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Oliver D.
Westcott (Dorothy Small), 84 Main St.,
Nantucket.

Mildred Daniels Cary write? that she has
two sons in the service, one in the Army
Medical Corps, and one a Midshipman in
the navy. In spite of all she is doing in Red
Cross activities she says, "I find as I look
back over the years, that the time I spent
at Abbot was really one of the happiest, and
most worthwhile events in my life."

Dorothy Small Westcott 's daughter Jane
Tomlinson, is a junior at Wheelock College.

1918

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. George J.
Cutler (Velma Rowell), 45 Eliot St.,
Jamaica Plain.

Martha Grace Miller Reese's daughter,
Phoebe, has gone to the school where her
mother taught years ago.

Margaret Speer is the new principal of the
Shipley School for Girls in Bryn Mawr, Pa.

Margaret Van Voorhis resigned in June,
her position with the Katharine Gibbs
School, in order to more intensively pursue
her vocal study. She is at present located in
New York City where she is coaching with
Coenraad V. Bos, internationally known
musical authority.

1919

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Grace L.
Boynton v Grace Leyser), 30 Engle St.,
Tenafly, Xew Jersey.

Married: Joyce Graham to Mr. Frederick
H. Taylor. Address: 817 Prince St.. Alex-
andria. Virginia,

Harriet San/or J Stuart's son "Chip." is
attending Governor Du miner School: Bill
is somewhere in the South Pacific in the
army Amphibian Command, and Margaret
'42. is at Katharine Gibbs in Xew York.

1920

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Beverly R.
Hubbard (Muriel Moxley), 334 West
Emerson St.. Melrose.

Virginia Miller Smucker's daughter Sally,
has entered Br\-n Mawr.

1921

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. David H.
Bigelow (Marion Kimball), 326 Highland
St.. West Newton.

1922

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. A. Evans
Kephart (Ruth Hill), 3 Weatherby Rd.,
Hanover. X'. H.

Married: Sally Bodwell to Charles Leon
Houghton, April 29. in Andover.

Barbara Goss is teaching at the Winsor
School in Boston.

1924
Twentieth Reunion

Only two members were present at the
reunion luncheon. Polly Billiard Holden
and Ruth Kellex Perry, but the following
news was received via letters and telegrams.

Laura Bliss Alexander -wrote. ' ' I doubtless
look every minute of my thirty-eight years,
but I feel younger than I did at eighteen!"

Kay Hart Mitchell says she and her hus-
band. Lt. Col. Mitchell have '"had glorious
fun and experiences travelling all over the
country. He is now somewhere in England.'"''

Genevra Rumford reports she is very busy-
as Navy Inspector and family cook.

Messages also came from, Helen Epler
Baketel. Ethel Thompson James and Marjorie
Wolfe Staples.

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. A. John
Holden Pollv Bullard . Middleburv. Ver-

mont.

1925

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. George B.

Beveridge ^Charlotte Hanna), Sanfordtown
Rd., Redding, Conn.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Marsh
(Dorothy Beeley^ a daughter, Jacqueline
Gilman. March 19. Roland Bradstreet is
five years old.

1926

Adelaide Black is Director of the Kathar-
ine Gibbs School in New York City. Her
father died on August 18.

Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Frederick C. Weld
Anne Sutton), a son, September 20.

1927

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Stuart R.
Stone (Xancv KimbalP, R.F.D. 4. Laconia,
X. H.

Eleanor Bird attended courses at Boston
L'niversity during the summer.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Carter
(Pauline Humeston\. a third child and
second son. Thomas Benedict, July 15.

Ella Stone brake r Bennett, has arrived in
Australia to serve as an American Red
Cross assistant.

1928

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Emily Sloper,
36 Russell St.. Xew Britain, Conn.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Stephen G. Wil-
liamson Jr. (Eleanor Leech") their third
child, and second son. Robert Leech, May
16. Stephen 3rd, is six, and Ann two and a
half years old.

Patty Snell Johnson has returned to Cairo
to be with her husband.

1929
Fifteenth Reunion

Hello. 29*ers! We had fun!

Eight of us held an exclusive gab-fest
and we had a grand reunion! Did your ears
burn? We talked over everyone and ex-
changed gossip as fast and furiously as
possible.

Barbara Folk Howe and I arrived at
Alumnae Headquarters about noon after
having a delightful visit at her home in
Lowell. First to greet us was Polly Francis
Loesch, fresh back from Florida where she
spent the winter with her twin imps, while
her Chaplain husband sojourned in England.
Then came Peg .Xeiille Batchelder looking
young as a kitten with her feathercut hairdo.
She and her two youngsters a boy 6 1 o and
a girl 3 1 2 make their home in Weymouth,
since Ed went over in a Landing Barge to be

in on the Invasion. Before lone our group
enlarged to include Kay Kennedy Bearc
Roberta Kendall Kennedy; and Beth 0>
£/?r/z£ Honeyman. By the time we arrived at

Mr-.. Chiprnan's for a very sumptuous
luncheon. Kay £/wn* Polsby had joined as.
Ovei our coffee cups we decided Kay Ken-
nedy wears yellow just as becomingly as she
did fifteen years ago in spite of her three
children, two girls and a boy, age o*. 6 and
one years old. Incidentally, her hair is still
as golden as ever.

Beth Osborne had us all giggling as she
described her daily antics with three young-
sters, all under five. Kay Blunt left two rollick-
ing boys at home on the farm in Connecticut
just so she could be in on the fun. As for
Roberta Kendall, she is our pride and joy.
Every : 2^er would have been proud to
watch her gracious charm and ability as she
led the Annual Meeting of the Alumnae
Association and took office for her second
term. We are proud to belong in her class!

Your answering letters to my card were
passed around the table. Here are excerpts
from some: Joyce Jarman McXamara says,
"Say Hello to all the class from me — I'll
make the next one or bust." Fran Cobb,
"The Russell family is all in one piece as yet
but we are waiting for the draft board to
catch up. Living in Ohio is too far from the
East coast to suit me." Barbara Elliott
Tevepaugh, "Maybe at the tender age of 70
I'll come along — my little Ann is too much
of a load now to take travelling." Margaret
Estes Seamans from Marblehead, "Two
little hellions aged 4 and 63^ named Betty
and John, plus no maid and a dribble of gas
make Andover look a long ways off." Betty
Jane Osborne Bacon, "My Anne is almost 4
and we now have a son Dennison, 7 months
old. Both are enormous, they take after me,
'Abbot size'!" Harriet Gilmore Yoh reports —
"Our move to Jersey after eight years in
Ohio — have seen Jane Linn Gale, Fran Cobb
Russell, Olive Elsey Weigle, and lunched
with Estelle Levering Chestnut, so I haven't
lost complete contact with fair '29." Bettina
Rollins Wheeler says, "Am trying to get to
Washington to join Coburn who is in the
Bureau of Aeronautics, Publications Section.
Everyone is there. Why shouldn't I join the
throng and struggle to buy Kleenex and
carrots?" Ginny Drake Hubbard, ' 'Wish with
all my heart I could be in Andover but no
soap this year. Travelling is so difficult and

help so Kara mail boys, 3 and

keep me busy at home most of the time. My
husband is an 'old man' by army standards,
but is busy in defense work at the Hubbard
Spring Co.. where Jeaxmette is also working
very hard and long. I would be so hap 7, U
see any of you who have occasion to come
Detroit." Mary MacDonald, "I might report
that thus far I have escaped 'false teeth and
cane.' - I could bring some grey hairs. Perhaps
it could be said that I remain in one pi a
at least in exceeding good health, unmarried
and without prospects. I am on the faculty
of the School of Social Service Administra-
tion of the University of Chicago." Eleanor
Jones Bennett from East Orange. "Roger is
down with the measles, and Patricia is
coughing tonight so I am afraid going to
reunion is just out this time." Despina
Plakias Messinisi from New York City, "If
only I could make it and lead my '29 class
in song I would be so very happy, but I am
still a loyal member 'spite it'. My mother
is with me now, I still work at Vogue, and
if my class reads it they'll find me in print
in the April 15 issue. My brother is now in
London with the Dept. of State. From my
husband in Greece I have not heard for
almost a year. All good luck, good wishes to
my class. I will send self-addressed cards to
whoever wants to write me, and I promise
to answer promptly."

From Jo-Jo — '"'Dear Lois and All Fair'^ers :
I have put off writing till the last minute in
the hope that I might get back for our 1 5th,
but I find it impossible. Life, at the moment,
for me, as for most people, is rather hectic.
My husband has been in the army for a year
and a half. Mother came to live with me,
and with the help of a hired man we ran the
farm. In August I went to the west coast to
be with my husband at several camps, then
returned in December. While I was away
the man left, and we had to sell our cows,
horses and goats. Now. Mother and I are
taking care of the pigs and chickens, not to
mention dogs, cats, an acre of vegetables,
and acre of lawn, flowers, etc. We're busy
and bed looks awfully good at night. I wish
I could be with you all, good luck and best
wishes, let's hope by our 20th we'll have
peace again."

We were disappointed that several who
had hoped to come did not appear. We
looked for Louise Tobey Dean and Betty
Mac Grouse. Betty's husband is awaiting his

call from the Navy, and Gwen Jones Ham-
lin's husband is a Captain in the Air Force.
Betty Taylor Amazeen had to change plans
the last minute. She holds the home front
together in South Hanson, with her three
small youngsters, while her husband is in the
Navy. That's all the news, ladies. Now it's
your turn. Where's Cleone? Kay Bowden?
How about 'Lish and May Eaton, Charlotte
Osgood, Millicent, and all the rest of you
who haven't peeped yet? Send a card to
Mrs. Chipman and me. We've had a good
start so let's keep it up!

Lois Hardy Daloz
Reunion Chairman

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Parker Honeyman
(Elizabeth Osborne) their fourth child, and
second son, Douglas McGregor, July 7.

Mrs. Olive Wakefield Warden, mother of
Olive Warden Schenninger, died on April 2 1 ,
in Andover. A recent letter from Olive,
written from Grenoble, France, the day after
the American forces arrived, spoke of the
strict rationing of food and supplies. To
satisfy the eager demand for learning Eng-
lish, she kept busy teaching several courses
in the University of Grenoble. Her daughter,
Patricia was four years old in July.

1930

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Jack R. War-
wick (Mary Jane Owsley), 26 Ledgewood
Rd., Bronxville, New York.

Elenita Cowee Chickering's husband is Lt.
(j.g.), USNR. She has three children,
Howell Jr. six, Elizabeth two and a half, and
Nancy, one year old.

Barbara Loud Mathias has begun her work
as Dean at Western College, Oxford, Ohio.

Barbara Smith Depenbrock has two chil-
dren, Ann, four and a half, and John, fourteen
months old.

1931

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Francis Hol-
land (Barbara Graham), 218 West Marion
St., South Bend, Indiana.

Nancy Carr Holmes' husband is with a
parachute reigment. She and her year old
son are living with her mother.

1932

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Dorothy
Richardson, Boston Rd., Billerica.

Lt. (j.g.) Isabel Arms has been trans-
ferred to Norfolk, Va., to be Disbursing
Officer for the Supervisory Cost Inspector,
5th Naval District.

Born: To Rev. and Mrs. M. Gray Blandy
(Anne Dudley) a daughter, Deborah Anne,
April 18. Christopher is several years old.
Mr. Blandy has charge of two Episcopal
parishes in Houston, Texas.

Lucile LeVine Fairbanks writes that her
husband 1st Lt. Hartley C. Fairbanks was
killed in August in action in France. She is
living in South Portland, Maine, with her
year old son, Stephen, and teaching at
Fryeburg Academy.

Dorothy Reinhart Cornell's husband, Rich-
ard W., died suddenly in Canada, on July 2.

Hilda Lynde Wylie and her small son are
living in Andover, while her husband is
overseas.

Born: To Lt. and Mrs. Daniel F. Sullivan
(Clare O'Connell) a son, Paul Michael.

1933

Margaret Chase Johnson writes from Cal-
ifornia that her husband has not yet gone
overseas, but they live "from day to day."

Born, To Prof, and Mrs. Harry L.
Hanson (Carolyn Guptil) a son, Jeffrey
Northedge, April 22.

Born: To Lt. (j.g.) and Mrs. Richard
Gay Cady (Elizabeth Snyder) their fourth
child, and second son.

Mar go Walker has a defense job with the
Polaroid Corp. in Cambridge, and is also
doing volunteer work at the Boston City
Hospital.

1934
Tenth Reunion

Six members of our class were present at
our tenth reunion luncheon at Mrs. Chip-
man's, Saturday, May 27. Kay Damon
Reed, Peggy Morrill Wilkins, Ada Carlson
Prescott, Mary Moore Gustafson, Molly
Savage Van Stone, and Sally O'Reilly Loria.
After lunch we went to the Annual Meeting
in Abbot Hall, and later admired the im-
provements to Draper Hall, the new dining
room, and library in the new wing. Ada,
Kay and Sally had a delicious dinner with
the school, and afterwards went to Draper
Dramatics, "Twelfth Night." Mary Rock-
well was there, and we were really taken
back ten years when the Andover boys, on
the way home from a victory over Exeter,
made the same kind of a noisy celebration,
outside the Abbot gate, as they used to.

Sally O'Reilly Loria

Reunion Chairman

Ada Carlson Prescott is raising apples on
her farm in Westford, Mass. Katherine
Damon Reed has the oldest husband, and is
the first one to have three children, includ-
ing the class baby. Mary Moore Gustafson
has three girls, six, four and two years of
age, and lives in Meriden, Conn. Peggy
Morrill Wilkins has bought a house in New-
buryport, built in 1750. Molly Savage Van
Stone has two children, John, four, and
Sally, one year old.

1935

Betsey Armington Arms' second son, Jona-
than Foster, was born on October 23, 1943.

Born: To Capt. and Mrs. John H.
McClennan (Jane Dawes), a daughter,
Joanne David, September 17. Capt. Mc-
Clennan is stationed at Warner Robbins
Field, Ga.

Albert H. Chamberlain, father of Barbara
Chamberlain McCready, died on June 28, in
Andover.

Born: To Lt. and Mrs. Edwin H. Goodwin
(Susan Hildreth) a son, Jonathan Howe,
August 1 1 .

Born: To Dr. and Mrs. Charles H. DuToit
(Eleanor Johnson) their second child, a
daughter, August 2 .

Married: Jean Wilson to Lt. (j.g.) Richard
D. Warren, February 6, 1943. Jean is work-
ing as secretary at the Andover Townsman
while her husband is overseas.

1936

Engaged: Kathryn Kip Humphreys to
Ensign John Frederic Requardt Jr., U.S.
maritime service.

Born: To Lt. Com. and Mrs. Elwood N.
Chase (Clara Holland) a second daughter,
Carolyn, September 19. Susann is three
years old.

Anne-Lawrence Dodge is a copywriter in
the Advertising Department of the Celanese
Celluloid Corporation, plastics division of
the Celanese Corp. of America, New York
City.

Married: Helen Marie O'Brien to Gage
Olcott, in Andover, July 8.

Sylvia Wright Poole brought her lively
young son to visit Abbot when her sister
Barbara entered as a new girl.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Walter Chapin
(Polly Spear) a daughter, Virginia Hart,
August 18.

1937

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Arthur W.
Tucker Jr. (Martha E. Ransom), 632 Great
Plain Rd., Needham.

Charlotte Boynton has been accepted
by the Red Cross as an Overseas Staff
Assistant, and expects to be in service soon.

Thelma Cutter received her B.S. from
Simmons College, and is now working for the
AAF Statistical School at Harvard.

Judith Wonson Chamberlain's husband,
Ensign Allen Chamberlain, died in San
Diego, Cal. on May 20. Judith has a young
son Jason.

1938

Engaged: Jean Appleby to Lt. Levis W.
Minford 3rd, AUS.

Sally Peck is the new president of the
Connecticut Abbot Club. She is studying
for her M.A. at Yale University.

Mary Toohey has accepted a position on
the faculty at Vassar, as assistant instructor
in child study.

Beatrice Tyer has charge of horses and
riding at Putney School, Putney, Vermont.

Sgt. Dorothy Walworth is working with
the army airways communications sys-
tem in Asheville, North Carolina.

1939

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. John H.
Judge (Barbara Bobst), 179 Fairview Ave.,
Belmont.

Barbara Bellows has been accepted by the
Red Cross for Overseas duty.

Married: Muriel Clark to Lt. Lawrence
William Bunce, Navy Air Corps, July 10.

Born: To Ensign and Mrs. John Nunez
(Joyce Curran) a son, Robert Flournoy V,
August 1.

Corp. Merrill Green, fiance of Marjorie
McMullen, died of wounds received in
France.

Married: Florence Mooney to Lt. Laur-
ence Lappin Doty Jr. AAF, June 17, in
Manchester, N. H.

Married: Adelle Sawyer to George W.
Wood, III, USA, September 9, in Yonkers,
New York.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Patrick O'Hagan
(Mary Woodman), a second child, a daugh-
ter, June 14, in Pretoria, Union of South
Africa.

1940

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Carl H.

Bolter (Jane Wilson), Apt. 12, 361 Harvard
St., Cambridge.

Married: Elaine Dalrymple to Robert
H. Borowski, USA, June 28, in Methuen.

Engaged: Corp. Marguerite Hall to Sgt.
Roy Yules, USMC.

Mary Spaulding is with the Red Cross,
now located in New Guinea as a Staff
Assistant.

The May issue of the Connecticut College
Alumnae News, gave a vivid account of the
successful musical comedy, "The Island of
Lolii," for which Elizabeth Travis Sollen-
berger wrote the music. "It was light, tune-
ful, vivid and gay," and was a smash hit
when produced at the college in April.

Married: Elizabeth Weaver to Ensign
Landon Hockmeyer, June 7, in North
Andover. Sally Cole '40, was her maid of
honor, and honorary attendants were:
Joyce Curran Nunez '39, Joan Waugh '41,
and Patricia Arnold '38.

Married: Marcia Wheeler to Flight
Officer Walter Cross Falconer AAF.

Winifred Wiglesworth has joined the Navy,
hoping to get into the Hospital Corps for
active service.

Engaged : Priscilla Williams to Alan Lloyd
Dorian, USATP.

1941

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Jane Parrot,
30 Ox Bow Lane, Summit, N. J.

Married: Ruth Bondy to Ensign Lawrence
Lowy USNR, September 9.

Joan Belden has joined the Marine Corps.

Married: Josephine Hartwell to Lt.
William Westcott Boddington, USA, August
22, in Colorado Springs. Miriam Calder
Dunn '41, was the matron of honor. Ad-
dress: 1930 Wood Ave., Colorado Springs,
Col.

Verniece Moody spent the summer doing
volunteer work in Physiotherapy at Johns
Hopkins Hospital. This fall she has returned
to Sargent College, Cambridge as a senior,
to work for her B.S., and Physiotherapy
certificate.

Emily Mills is studying at the Boston
School of Occupational Therapy.

Married: Mary Purcell to D. H. Wilson,
April 3. Address: Strathmore Cottage,
Pennant Ave., Beachwood, N. J.

Amelia Shields is spending the fall months
in Guatemala.

Engaged: Nancy Whittier to Ralph Massie
Atchinson, USNR.

Engaged: Bonney Wilson to Richard
Andrew Hakanson, USAAF.

1942

Sue Bates is Social Chairman of the
Service League, and Chairman of the War
Services Committee at Connecticut College
for '44- '45.

Married: Ethel Ann Bolton to Lt. (j.g.)
Charles Henderson Jr. August 15, in North
Andover. Her sister Harriet Bolton Allen
'32 was her matron of honor, and brides-
maids were classmates, Suzanne Bates,
Margaret Stuart, Marjorie Dean and Betty
Jean England. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. Alexander Twombly, husband of
Barbara Nelson '25.

Engaged: Louise Clark to Cadet James
W. Gilland.

Married: Marjorie Dean to Cpl. Phillips
Brooks Marsden Jr., September 15, in
Andover.

Married: Beatrice Hardy to Lt. (j.g.)
Francis de Luze Verdery, USNR, July 29,
in Andover. One of her bridesmaids was
Helen Barss ,'43.

Married: Margaret Hill to Captain Harry
Bell Jr., USA, September 23, in Red Bank,
N. J. Her sister, Ann, now in Abbot, and
Sally Zimmermann '42, were bridesmaids.

Margaret Stuart graduated from Pine
Manor Junior College, and has entered
Katharine Gibbs School in New York City.

1943

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Marion
Burdine, Hollins College, Virginia.

Helen Barss has transferred from Bryn
Mawr to the Boston School of Occupational
Therapy.

Married: Louise Swenning to Lancer T.
Weinrich, USAAF.

Engaged: Marilyn Tapper to Clifton
Fletcher Mountain, USNR.

Winifred Tucker is a student nurse in a
hospital in Flint, Michigan. Address: Hurley
Nurses Home.

THE CLASS OF 1944

Nancy Baylor University of Nebraska

B.J. Bertucio Russell Sage (School of Nursing)

Nan Buland

Ann Cadmus

Elinor Cahill

Jacqueline Calvin

Patricia Chandler

Elisabeth Colson

Patricia Damon

Nancy Emerson

Betty Frank

Ruth Goodall

Marjorie Hamilton

Virginia Heidenkamp

Aagot Hinrichsen

Janet Hitchcock

Cynthia Holmes

Louise Honnen

Alva Houston

Molly Hubbard

Ruth Kirstein

Frederica Lange

Smith

Middlebury

Barnard

Smith

To England

Pine Manor Junior

Garland

Bennett Junior

University of Kentucky

Garland

Vassar

Sarah Lawrence

Radcliffe

To England

Smith

Mills

Studying music in New York

Lake Erie College

Colby

Barnard

Charlotte Leland
Ruth Lyons
Alma Mastrangelo
Theresa Mastrangelo
Nancy Mclvor
Emily McMurray
Nancy Nicholas
Ines Ortega
Carol Paradise
Katherine Pendleton
Eva Persson
Elizabeth Reid
Shirley Rhodes
Elizabeth Rich
Paula Savage
Marion Stevens
Priscilla Stevens
Nancy Stone
Julia Tavares
Charlotte Trow
Harriet Waller
Martha Watkins
Shirley Woodams
Margaret Travis

Bennett Junior

Wellesley

Pembroke

Smith

Barnard

Cornell

To South America

Connecticut

Mt. Holyoke

Radcliffe

Middlebury

Skidmore

To England

Vassar

P.G. at Abbot

Connecticut

Endicott Junior

Mt. Holyoke

Briar cliff Junior

University of Rochester

Vassar

say can you hear — By the dawn's early light

Our cries of despair Sit down and write clear —

When Bulletins come back — All news of your self

Marked by P.O. "not there!" For vour friends far and near

Name Glass

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and mail before January 10, to the Alumnae Office, Abbot Academy, An-
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Abbot Academy Alumnae Association

Associate Member of American Alumni Council

President
Mrs. Rolfe M. Kennedy
(Roberta Kendall)
Douglaston, N. Y.

Vice-presidents
Mrs. Frank C. d'Elseaux
(Virginia Gay)
Winchester, Mass.

Mrs. Douglas Donald
(Edith Johnson)
Andover, Mass.

Mrs. Ernest L. Tillson
(Gwendolyn Bloomfield)
Wellesley Hills, Mass.

OFFICERS, 1 944- 1 946

Clerk
Mrs. Edwin H. Goodwin
(Susan Hildreth)
Winchester, Mass.

Treasurer
Mrs. James E. Downs
(Laura Cheever)
Andover, Mass.

Social Secretary
Mrs. Reeve Chipman
(Constance Parker)
Andover, Mass.

Executive Secretary
Miss Marion R. McPherson
Andover, Mass.

ALUMNAE TRUSTEES

I 939~ I 945 . 1942-194^

Mrs. A. John Holden Miss Margaret Van Voorhis

(Polly Bullard) 304 Lexington Ave.

Middlebury, Vermont New York City, New York

ABBOT CLUB PRESIDENTS

Boston
Miss Irene Atwood
6 Lanark Rd.
Brookline, Mass.

Chicago
Mrs. J. Allen Lind
(Mary Simpson)
1239 Asbury Ave.
Winnetka, Illinois

Connecticut
Miss Sara G. Peck
20 Fairview Terrace
Derby, Conn.

Detroit
Mrs. Thomas A. Nalle
(Harriet Balfe)
1 2 1 1 Willow Lane
Birmingham, Michigan

Maine, Eastern
Miss Eleanor Bird
250 Broadway
Rockland, Maine

Maine, Western
Mrs. Harold Robinson
(Harriette Wool ver ton)
Cape Elizabeth, Maine

New York
Miss Charlotte Dane
21 East 37th St.
New York City, N. Y.

Ohio, Central
Mrs. Paul Meek
(Louise Norpell)
Worthington, Ohio

Ohio, Cleveland
Mrs. George Worthington
(Madeleine Fiske)
Chesterland, Ohio

Old Colony
Mrs. Richard M. Thompson
(Ruth Niles)
300 Woodlawn St.
Fall River, Mass.

Pittsburgh
Mrs. George H. Jackson
(Gertrude Miller)
515 No. McKean St.
Butler, Pa.

ABBOT ACADEMY BULLETIN

Series 12 FEBRUARY 1945 Issue 2

Table of Contents

page
Cover. Girls: Jane Brown '47; Sally Allen '46; Hilary Paterson '45

Frontispiece: Mary V. Spaulding

News from Alumnae in Service 3

Notes from Alumnae in England 4

I Enjoy My Work as a Glass Fund Secretary .... 5

Candidates for Nomination for Alumna Trustee ... 6

Winter and Spring School Calendar 8

Alumnae Association 10

Abbot Clubs 11

In Memoriam 12

Class News 13

THE EDITORIAL BOARD

JANE B. CARPENTER, 1892, honorary
CONSTANCE PARKER CHIPMAN, 1906, Editor in Chief

marion r. Mcpherson, 191 8

ROBERTA KENDALL KENNEDY, 1929, ex officio

Published four times yearly, October, February, May, and September, by Abbot Acad-
emy, Andover, Massachusetts.

Entered as second class matter December 12, 1933, at the post office at Andover, Massa-
chusetts, under the act of August 24, 191 2.

Mary V. Spaulding, Abbot 1940, with some P-38 Pilots

in Dutch New Guinea

News from Alumnae in Service

ABBOT Alumnae are working in Red Gross Canteens in many parts of
the world, as well as in every state in the Union. A brief glimpse at the
daily routine of Mary V. Spaulding, '40, now in New Guinea, is typical of the
experiences of many others.

Mary lives with eight other girls in a tin shack in a jungle clearing in
New Guinea, off the beaten path, and quite isolated, with four MP's to
work the clock around as guards. She leaves early every morning in the cab
of a huge truck, which takes her over miles of dusty roads to the Red Cross
Canteen where three GI's who have been assigned to help her, arrive about
the same time. Together they set about the business of getting a fifteen-gallon
pot of coffee ready, and arranging sandwiches and cookies on the counter and
tables, for the hungry horde of men who will rush the canteen as soon as the
door is opened. The men are combat fliers and ground crews, transport
crews and their passengers, plus the many men who work on the field. They
are always hungry, and literally thousands of sandwiches and doughnuts are
served each day. The men are in the line, not only for the food, but each one
hoping to have a word with an American girl.

By the end of the day she is weary. After the return to camp she has
about two hours leisure before starting out in another truck for another dusty
ride to a mess hall for dinner. There is fun and recreation in the evening,
but she must remember one thing; tomorrow at seven the men will be
lined up at the canteen door!

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From "somewhere in Italy," Sgt. Muriel Baker Wood 191 5, writes: "I
have a job in the Statistical Control Unit, Suicide Combat Unit, the boys
call it. It deals with bomb tonnages, sorties, effects of bombing etc. Anyone
in the Air Corps can call on the Unit for information (at ten minutes notice) ,
about anything. While we are rear echelon now, last winter and spring it was
otherwise, for which we rate an "invasion" star on our European war ribbon.
Sounds silly, but we have seen what the combat boys go through, and at
least, have done in our spare time from our jobs, what we can to help them.
My German, begun at Abbot has come a long way. I have done a little
interpreting with the French and Dutch troops and hope to do a great deal
more before long."

Notes from Alumnae in England

Kathryn Wallace Brown 1924, writes; "My husband died in August
1940, at which time I was all tied up in W.V.S. (District organizer), evacuee
billeting, and civil defense. January 1941, I started my army career. Now I
am an officer in the A.T.S. (Auxiliary Territorial Service — WACS in the
States), and am in charge of a platoon of one hundred girls. I am working
hard, and liking it. I keep in touch with Alice Cole Overton, class of 1927,
now in Aberdeen."

Paula Savage 1944, writes from her home in Oxford, "I am waiting to be
registered, and in the meantime am working in a servicemen's canteen,
looking after a Brownie pack, and doing other odd jobs. However I am dying
to really start working because everybody is in uniform or is doing some vital
war work.

I was lucky enough to escape the black-out, for we have actually got a
few lamps in the streets now, which my mother never stops talking about,
because, whereas she cycled home in the pitch black from the canteen for
five years, she now has a few lights to guide her.

The food situation is not nearly as drastic as I expected. We certainly
are not hungry, although it is extremely monotonous; fish and sausages,
sausages and fish, and austerity cake that reeks of dried eggs. But of course I
am not a good judge having come straight from the sumptuous meals at
Abbot!

I am sometimes invited to visit young wounded boys in the hospitals;
although they usually make light of their wounds, yet it is most depressing
to see young boys so shattered as many of them are.

I certainly had a marvellous year at Abbot, and wish that I could be
there now."

Abbot Alumnae in War Services

WAVES WACS

Isabel Arms '32, Lt. (j.g.) Kathryn Bixby '40, T/4

Ann Clement '40 Anne Cleveland '33, Pvt.

Dorothy Heidrich '39, H.A. A/c Edith Keller '30, Pvt.

Catherine McDonnell '26, Sp.Q,3/c Madeleine Proctor '38, Lt.

Frances Howard O'Brien '25 Christine Robinson '40

Anne Pearson '43 Ruth Rose » 37

Patricia Pierpont '42, S2/C Dorothy Walworth '38, Cpl.

Helen Ripley '30, Ens. Muriel Baker Wood '15, Sgt.
Eleanor Ritchie '30, Ens.
Barbara Tucker '32, Ens.

Grace S. Vibberts '37, Ens. RED CROSS OVERSEAS

Winifred Wiglesworth '40 Barbara Bellows '39

vy Ape Charlotte Boynton '37

Kip Humphrey '36 Charlotte Gowing Cooper ' 1 1

Louise Hyde '28

MARINES Annette Robin '33

Helen Craig '42, Cpl. Mary V. Spaulding '40

Joan Belden McDonough '41, Pvt. Ella Stonebraker Bennett '27

(This list includes all who are so far known to the Alumnae Office . Please report additional names)

I Enjoy
My Work as
Class Fund
Secretary

Mary Jane Owsley Warwick

1930

"Z pray the enclosed will meet your expectations.
Being immature in the art of expressing myself in
print, I took the liberty of putting it in letter form. I
so earnestly desired to have it of the heart, that I had
to resort to this way of doing it. When I talked to you
on the phone, it was like striking a match on a burning
ember.

You have asked me to do some writing for the Abbot Bulletin. My
subject is to be about my work as class fund secretary. You particularly
mentioned that I should write in the same vein in which I occasionally will
drop you a note. I tried to do this, addressing as it were a large audience,
granted my sister alumnae, but still an audience! And I became self-conscious,
stilted and boring.

Now, when I write to you, it is like taking up a private little heart
string upon which I can strum a melody and I will not be judged nor con-
demned if it is not musically correct, but will be forgiven for the enthusiasm
and the sincerity of my effort.

If I could but indulge in a brief history even of the high points in my
life, I would. As it is, let me tell you a little. NOW. I am happy. NOW. My
life is full to overflowing. I reflect; why? It is because of these high points,
one of which you have, of course, guessed, is my Abbot years. Again, I re-
flect; why? Because, there, I learned to expect the fulfillment of my high
ideals, because I found out that these high ideals were not the exception, but
the rule. At Abbot I first learned to understand. As I look back, how small a
ray of light it was! I can liken it to Jesus' parable of the man who sowed a
seed into the ground then fell asleep. Despite his inattention the seed ma-
tured, and we are told "the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the
blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear." Mark 4:28.

So, when the mid-winter season of the year rolls around and I am asked
once more to write a note to each member of my class, I allow myself to bask
in the light of those vivid Abbot days which were such vital steps along

"the way."

Nini

Candidates for the Elective Alumna Member

of the Board of Trustees

The nominating committee appointed by the Alumnae Association
takes pleasure in presenting the following names for nomination for Alumna
Trustee to serve for six years. Ballots will be mailed by March first, and all
alumnae are urged to vote and return the ballots to the chairman of the
nominating committee as promptly as possible.

Committee: Chairman, Mrs. Lois Hardy Daloz '29, 25 Hillside Rd.,
Wellesley Hills, Mass.; Mrs. Elizabeth Sage Batchelder '33; Miss Dorothy
Taylor '08.

Helen S. Allen, Abbot 1932
Mrs. Lenert W. Henry

246 Glen Rd., Weston 93, Mass.

Mrs. Henry graduated from Smith College in 1936. Since then she has
continued her active interest in Smith and Abbot, serving on the Boards of
the Smith Alumnae Association, and of the Boston Abbot Club. She acted as
a Director of the Orchard Home School from 1 938-1 941, and is at present
president of the Wellesley Smith Club. She married in 1937, and has three
sons.

Helen Bradley, A bbot 1919
Mrs. Harold H. Hodgkinson

1 6 Griffen Ave., Scarsdale, N. Y.

Mrs. Hodgkinson graduated from Miss Pierce's School in Boston after
she finished at Abbot. She married in 1923, and has since devoted herself to
her home and her family. She has exerted a general interest in young people
and community affairs. She was president of the New York Abbot Club
from 1 941 -1 943, and is at present a Director of the New York Club.

Marion Kimball, Abbot 1921
Mrs. David H. Bigelow

326 Highland St., West Newton 65, Mass.

Mrs. Bigelow was married in 1926, and has been most interested in her
home, and the bringing up of three daughters. She takes an active part in
church and community affairs, and has kept in touch with Abbot by serving
as a vice-president of the Alumnae Association from 1938- 1942 and presi-
dent of the Boston Abbot Club from 1936- 1937.

Abbot Winter and Spring Calendar 1945

January

February

March

April

May

Vesper Services, Sundays at 7:30 p.m.

14 The Rev. A. Graham Baldwin, Phillips Academy

21 The Rt. Rev. G. Bromley Oxnam, Bishop of the Methodist

Church in the New York area
4 The Rev. Roy L. Minich, D.D., The First Church, Maiden
18 The Rev. Charles R. Brown, D.D., Dean Emeritus, Yale

Divinity School
25 The Rev. J. L. McCorison Jr. , The National Conference of
Christians and Jews, Inc.
4 The Rev. Herbert Gezork, Andover-Newton Theological
School
11 The Rev. Donald Campbell, Dean, Christ Church Cathe-
dral, Springfield
18 The Rev. Raymond Calkins D.D., Pastor Emeritus, First
Church, Cambridge
8 The Rev. Howard L. Rubendall, Headmaster of Mount
Hermon School for Boys

15 The Rev. Arthur H. Bradford, Central Congregational

Church, Providence, R. I.

22 The Abbot Christian Association

29 The Rev. George Cadigan, Grace Church, Salem

1 3 The Rev. Carl H. Elmore, D.D., First Presbyterian Church,

Englewood, N. J.
20 The Rev. Sidney Lovett, D.D., Chaplain Yale University

January

February
March

March
S

February 3

10
11

17
3

10
17

School Events and Entertainments

Talk by Mrs. Paul Robeson

Concert by Henri Deering, Pianist, and Dorothy Minty,
Violinist

Lecture by Mrs. Frank Mansfield Taylor, "Our World
This Evening"

Lecture by Li Ling Ai, "Behind the Embroidered Fan"

Student Recital

Senior Prom

Fidelio and Governor Dummer Academy Glee Club con-
cert and dance at Governor Dummer

Students Recital

Senior Play, "Dear Brutus"

22- April 3 Spring Vacation

April

May

y Russell Curry, Dance and Music
14 Prep-Junior-Junior-Mid Plays
21 Fidelio and Phillips Exeter Academy Glee Club concert

and dance
28 Cum Laude lecture by Robert Frost

5 Abbot Birthday Celebration

6 Organ Recital by Walter Howe

12 Recital by Mrs. Gray's Speech Pupils
ig Spring Field Day

20 Baccalaureate; The Rev. John Edgar Park, D.D., President

Emeritus of Wheaton College

21 Commencement Address: The Rev. James T. Cleland,

D.D., Chaplain, Amherst College

The John-Esther Art Gallery
Curator, Maud Morgan
January and February: Contemporary Abstract and Surrealist Painting

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

As the Bulletin goes to press the school
has announced the cancellation of the
spring vacation in response to the urgent
request of the O.D.T., therefore the dates
of events in May will have to be changed —
Commencement will be May 18-21.

Alumnae Visitors at Abbot

June 1944 — January 1945

Harriet Sanford Stuart '19; Margaret Stuart '42; Edith Ninomya '42;
Miriam Douglas '42; Elizabeth Ward Saunders '25; Rachel Place Smith '33;
Clara Smith Clark '33; Grace Bowen Collins '38; Betty Hardy '42; Suzanne
Bates '42; Pam Bolton '42; Elizabeth Bulkeley '21; Sylvia Wright Poole '36;
Frances Pray '11; Ruth S. Lyons '44; Cornelia McMurray '43; Helen S.
Barss '43; Dorothy Baxter Reynolds '17; Louise Kimball Jenkins '16; Bunny
Hamper '43; Betsy Bennett '43; Libby Lovett '42; Harriet Waller '44; Nan
Buland '44; Bunny Pendleton '44; Louise Risley Floyd '37; Margi Travis '44,
Julia Tavares '44; Constance Walker '43; Anne Rivinius '40; Marion Kimball
Bigelow '21; Jane D. Philbin '41; Emily Mills '41; Marjorie Hamilton '44;
Betty Reid '44; Suzanne Long Kremer '41 ; Joan Hubbard Lawson '39.

Alumnae Association

Members of the Boston and New York Abbot Clubs are asked to put
red circles around the dates of April 7, and April 14. At the meeting of the
Boston Club on April 7, to be held at the College Club, at 2 p.m., Miss Hear-
sey will bring the greetings of the school; Mrs. Alice Dixon Bond will speak on,
"Books in the News."

The New York Club will hold a luncheon meeting at the New Weston
Hotel, on April 14. Miss Hearsey will be a welcome speaker, and the club is
happy to present a distinguished alumna, Miss Margaret Speer 1918, Head-
mistress of the Shipley School. Miss Speer will speak on "Life in a Con-
centration Camp in China in 1943."

The clubs hold few meetings these busy days, so alumnae are earnestly
asked to make these a great success. If you are not on the mailing list of either
one, please notify the Alumnae Office, or the presidents, whose names and
addresses may be found on the inside of the front cover of the Bulletin.

Commencement

Commencement will be held from May 1 8-2 1 ; Alumnae Day on May
19. All alumnae are urged to return for Alumnae Day especially, whether
or not it is a reunion year. A cordial welcome awaits you!

New Trustees

The Board of Trustees is happy to announce the election of two new
members: Mrs. Wilbur K. Jordan (Frances Ruml), Cambridge; Mr. Stod-
dard M. Stevens, Jr., Short Hills, New Jersey.

Alumnae Office

The Alumnae Office gave its annual Coffee Party to the Senior Class on
Saturday, January 20. By this means (coffee and doughnuts!), the soon-to-
be alumnae were made acquainted with the efficient equipment which will
serve to keep them in close relationship with the school. They inspected the
stencil and addressograph machines, and realized more fully what detail of
preparation goes into the mailing of the Alumnae Bulletins. They also
understood why it was so vitally important to keep the office always informed
of their correct addresses! An exhibition of old photographs was arranged to
show them something of the historical background of Abbot.

American Alumni Council

Mrs. Chipman attended the meetings of District 1, held at Amherst, from
January 23-25. From among many papers of practical value, the following
were especially helpful to the work of the Abbot Alumnae office. "Respon-
sibility of the Alumni Office to the Classes and the Clubs," by Lois Hardy,
Bradford Junior College; "Alumni Magazines. Some Problems in Magazine
Make-up." David T. McCord, editor of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin. President
Stanley King of Amherst College, was the speaker at the concluding dinner.

Abbot Clubs

BOSTON (1892): President Miss Irene
Atwood, 6 Lanark Rd., Brookline; Vice-
presidents, Mrs. Gwendolyn Bloomfield Till-
son, Mrs. Elizabeth Whitaker Warren;
Recording Secretary, Mrs. Ruth Baker Johnson;
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Marion Ireland
Conant; Treasurer, Mrs. Margaret Nay Gram-
kow; Auditor, Mrs. Helen Allen Henry; Pro-
gram Chairman, Mrs. Ruth Tyler Smith;
Directors (1943- 1945), Mrs. Elizabeth Sage
Batchelder, Mrs. Faith Chipman Parker,
Mrs. Alice Schultz Valkenburgh; Directors
(1944- 1 946), Mrs. Katherine Allen Babson,
Mrs. Martha E. Ransom Tucker, Priscilla
Richards.

The Club held a most successful meeting
on November 18, at the College Club. Miss
Lillian R. Fletcher, Supervisor of Steward-
esses, Northeast Airlines, gave a delightful
talk on, "The Drama behind the Scenes in
Air Transportation."

The Alumnae Association and the Boston
Club will hold their combined spring meet-
ing on Saturday, April 7, at the College
Club, at 2 p.m. Speakers: Mrs. Alice Dixon
Bond; Miss Marguerite Hearsey.

CHICAGO (192 1): President, Mrs. J.
Allen Lind (Mary Simpson); Secretary, Mrs.
Edith Bullen Creeden, 461 Hill Rd., Win-
netka; Treasurer, Mrs. Margaret Hall
Walker.

CONNECTICUT (1923): President, Miss
Sara Peck, 20 Fairview Ter., Derby; Secre-
tary-Treasurer, Mrs. Virginia Lawton Cheney,
36 Morse St., Hamden.

DETROIT (1922): President, Mrs. Thom-
as Nalle (Harriet Balfe) ,1211 Willow Lane,
Birmingham.

MAINE, EASTERN (1926): President,
Miss Eleanor Bird, 250 Broadway, Rockland;
Vice-President, Mrs. Frances McDougall
McLoon; Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. An-
netta Richards Bryant, Round Pond.

MAINE, WESTERN (1922): President,
Mrs. Harold Robinson (Harriette Woolver-
ton), Cape Elizabeth; Treasurer, Mrs. Char-
lotte Baldwin Frohock.

NEW YORK (1898): President, Miss Char-
lotte Dane 1936, 21 East 38th St., New
York City; Vice-Presidents, Mrs. Eunice
Meigs Pease 1921, Miss Gertrude Holbrook
1925; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Ruth Cann
Baker 1931; Recording Secretary, Mrs. Despina
Plakias Messinesi 1929; Treasurer, Miss
Charlotte Boynton; Directors, Mrs. Helga
Lundin Buttrick 1923, Mrs. Laura Scudder
Williamson 1924, Mrs. Helen Bradley
Hodgkinson 191 9.

The fall meeting of the Club was cancelled.

Alumnae are asked to make a special
effort to attend the annual meeting, to be
held on Saturday, April 14, at the New
Weston Hotel. "War Time Special" Lunch.
Speakers: Miss Marguerite Hearsey; Miss
Margaret Speer, Abbot 19 18, Headmistress
of the Shipley School. Miss Speer will speak
on "Life in a Concentration Camp in China
in 1943."

OHIO, CENTRAL (192 1): President,
Secretary, Mrs. Paul Meek (Louise Norpell),
5600 Meek Rd., Worthington.

OHIO, CLEVELAND (1927): President,
Mrs. George Worthington (Madeleine Fiske),
Chesterland, Ohio.

OLD COLONY (1924): President, Mrs.
Richard M. Thompson (Ruth Niles), 300
Woodlawn St., Fall River; Secretary and
Treasurer, Mrs. Louise Thompson Cortrell,
372 Madison St., Fall River.

PITTSBURGH (192 1): President, Mrs.
George H.Jackson (Gertrude Miller), Butler,
Pa.; Secretary, Mrs. Joseph M. Browne (Eliza
Atwell), 529 Pine Rd., Sewickley.

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In Memoriam

1864

Ada F. Daniels died on April 13, 1944.

1876

Kate Dresser, widow of Oliver D. Thomp-
son, died in Pittsburgh, Pa., on November 4,
1944.

1877

Sarah Bird, wife of the late Judge Charles
N. Harris, died on December 7, 1944, in
Winchester.

Mrs. Harris's sons, Arthur and Henry,
have sent the following expression of ap-
preciation of Abbot's influence on the life of
their mother, from which we quote. "Ex-
cept for her family, home and church, prob-
ably no single factor contributed as much
to her happy and useful life as her years at
Abbot .... From many intimate friends,
Carrie Hall '77, married Mother's brother;
another, Helen Bowers Lovering, became
her next door neighbor for over forty years.
But greater than the personal friendship and
influence of these Abbot alumnae on the
lives of one another, was the larger influence
that they had on thousands of others with
whom they came in contact. Surely the
spirit and influence of Abbot Academy
which helped to mould their characters
must have spread and inspired people in all
walks of life . . . . "

1885

S. Frances Marrett died July 8, 1944.
Miss Marrett taught for twenty-five years
at the Perkins Institute for the Blind. Helen
Keller was her most distinguished pupil,
whom she brought to Abbot in 1891.

1887

Lillian Rhoads died on December 16,
1944, m Newark, Ohio. For many years she
was a teacher in the school for the Deaf
and Dumb in Columbus, Ohio.

1893

Maude T. Belknap died on December 29,
1944, in Andover.

1903

Bertha May Harvey died on November
5, 1944, in Hallowell, Maine.

1908

Jane Bodell died on July 7, 1944,
Providence, R. I.

1916

Agnes Grant died on November 17, 1944,
in New York City, following a long illness.
After she retired from a successful stage
career, Agnes became interested in Red
Cross Work, travelling, giving lectures, and
radio broadcasts. She also had an active
interest in the housing problems in New
York, and worked in the U.S.O. organiza-
tion.

1917

Katherine T. Wiest died on November
22, 1944, in York, Pa. She was the sister of
Henrietta Wiest Zaner, 191 1.

1932

Leonore Hezlitt, wife of William E. Dur-
ham, died on December 31,1 944, in Kansas
City, Mo.

Class News

The Editors regret the necessity of reporting the ever increasing
news of sorrow and loss which the war is bringing to so many alumnae.
May the heartfelt sympathy which flows from the Abbot circle of friends
bring some small measure of comfort to each one.

1879

Adelaide Weeks writes that her place at
West Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard, took the
full force of the September hurricane, and
that her loss was heavy.

1881

Emma Chadbourne Wood has sent a photo-
graph, taken in 1878, of a group of girls
taken on the porch of Abbot Hall, which
then stood facing School St., in about the
middle of the present "Circle." Mrs. Wood's
husband died two years ago, after many
years of pastoral service with her in West
Medway and other towns. She is now living
in Holliston.

1860-1891

Class Funds Secretary: Mrs. Ernest C.
Young (Ruth Childs), 6 Emerson St.,
Brookline.

1886

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Frank W.
Darling (Mary Gorton), Hampton, Vir-
ginia.

1887

Lillian Cutter Porter acted at once when
she found no news of '87 in the Bulletin,
by sending word she was well, and "actively
interested in everything going on today."

1890

Fanny Gordon Bartlett's son, Lt. Com.
Samuel C. Bartlett Jr., was recently awarded
the "Legion of Merit" for serving over two
years in the Navy "with marked distinction."
Her daughter, Dr. Agnes, Holyoke '34, is
doing a comprehensive job in the General
Hospital at Poston, Arizona, relocation
center for Japanese. Her ability to speak the
language, known from her childhood in
Kyoto, is of great advantage to her, especial-
ly in dealing with the older women, who
know little English.

1891

Dr. Daniel B. Hardenbergh Jr., son of
Annie Bull Hardenbergh, is with the Yale
Medical Unit in New Zealand. Her grand-

son, Mark, son of her oldest son, has entered
Phillips Academy.

1892
Class Fund Secretary: Miss Jane B.
Carpenter, School St., Andover.

1894

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Doremus
Scudder (Mabel Bosher), 133 West Ninth
St., Claremont, California.

1895
Fiftieth Reunion

1896

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Henry V.
Conant (Ruth Loring), 914 High St.,
Dedham.

Grace Pearson Preston's son, Com. Alex-
ander Preston, is expected home from the
S.W. Pacific for a furlough this winter.

May Young Duffy is giving her time at the
Red Cross keeping the records of the differ-
ent departments while her son George is in
India with the Engineers. She and her hus-
band expect to go to "The Breakers" at
Palm Beach, for six weeks.

1897

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Alexander
Bunce (Gertrude Ware), R.F.D. 1, Rock-
ville, Conn.

Harold Rowland, husband of Emily
Willett, died on October 24, 1944, in Need-
ham.

1898

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Robert W.
Dunbar (Selina Cook), 3 Elk St., Apt. 7,
Albany, New York.

Annie Smart Angus' mother, Mrs. Martha
Stewart Smart, died on November 27, 1944,
in her ninety-sixth year.

1899

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Brainerd E.
Smith (Lilian Mooers), 116 East St., Me-
thuen.

Ruth Child Young's son is in the Infantry
somewhere in Northern Italy.

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1900

Forty-Fifth Reunion

Reunion Chairman: Miss Mary Bancroft,
98 1/2 Main St., Andover.

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Arthur P.
Spear (Grace Chapman), 156 Winchester
St., Brookline.

Helen Abbott has retired after twenty-
five years of service, from the position of
Assistant to the Dean in Charge of Residence
Halls at Barnard College. She now makes
her home with her brother in White Plains,
New York.

1901

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Helen Hale,
86 Knox St., Lawrence.

1902

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Hezekiah
Poore (Mildred Mooers), 37 Ames St.,
Lawrence.

Miriam Carpenter has a position at the
Harvard Law School, reorganizing and
indexing records, and is in Andover for the
weekends with her sister, Jane Carpenter.
One of her hobbies is persuading people to
adopt hobbies, because of the fun she has
had of late dabbling in paints.

Harriett Chase Newell has two sons in the
service; Edward is a Corporal in Signal
Photo Co., with the Seventh Army; Prescott
is S/Sgt., an airplane mechanic in the Pa-
cific area. She has nine grandchildren, in-
cluding two adopted, one step, and six real!

1903

Bessie Bampton Clark's son, Capt. Bruce B.
Clark, is in charge of a Base Weather Station
in Texas.

1905

Fortieth Reunion

Reunion Chairman: Mrs. W. S. Knicker-
bocker (Frances Cutler), Loomis School,
Windsor, Conn.

Elsie Jeffers Hobbs writes that her husband
has retired from teaching, and they have
moved back to his boyhood home in Kittery,
Maine.

1907

Marjory Bond Crowley's son, Cpl. John R.
Crowley, is with the 14th Air Force based in
western China. He was stationed in India
and flew over "the Hump" into China. He
was married in 1941 to Shirley Cole of
Melrose, and has a son twenty-one months
old.

Anna Richards Folsom has written of the
arrival of her second grandchild, on Decem-
ber 15, 1944, born to her oldest daughter,
Carolyn Folsom Stoddard. The baby is
named for her great-grandmother, Char-
lotte Blodget Richards, Abbot 1878, and is
her fourth great grandchild. Anna's second
daughter, Charlotte Saunders is an en-
gineer's aid at the Gruman Airplane factory,
Bethpage, L. I. She is very proud to have
designed a minute part on Gruman's newest
navy "cat." Her husband, Capt. Robert
Saunders is an Army doctor, at present on a
hospital ship ferrying between France and
England.

1908

Ruth Van Vliet Fawcett reports a new
granddaughter, Ruth Barlow Fawcett, born
May 20, 1944, to her son, Dr. John C.
Fawcett. Dr. Fawcett has a Residency at the
Bethesda Suburban Hospital until June.
Ruth's other son and family are living with
her for the duration.

1909

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Gilbert L.
Canterbury (Beulah McCarthy) 18th St.,
N.W., Canton 3, Ohio.

Mary Sweeney of the Romance Languages
Department at Wheaton College, was sent
to Spain during the summer of 1944 by the
U. S. Government to help arrange for
cultural relationship between the U.S. and
Spain.

1910
Thirty-Fifth Reunion

Reunion Chairman: Mrs. Owen Morgan
(Emily Silsby), 55 High St., West Hartford,
Conn.

Class Fund Chairman: Mrs. Myron G.
Darby (Ethel Reigeluth), no Tangle wylde
Ave., Bronxville, N. Y.

Marian Sanford reports her interesting
work on the Woman's Home Companion; "I
haven't been Travel Editor for almost three
years, but am in charge of a group of 2000
women called Reader-Reporters, who write
to us from every part of the United States
about their families, communities and
problems. It is fascinating work, as I love
to work with people." Marian also edits the
Reader Reporter News, which reflects the
views of women from all over the country on
the many issues they face these critical
times.

1911

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Douglas
Donald (Edith Johnson) 8 Carisbrooke
St.. Andover.

1913

Ethel Rand is teaching six different sub-
jects in the high school on Deer Island,
Maine; and is doing church work on
another island.

1914

Helen Gilbert Rich had her five children
all together at Christmas; her oldest son,
William, having returned from more than
two years in Field Ambulance Service in
Africa and Italy.

Elsie Whipple RevilPs daughter, Eloise
Spruance, was married on June 3, 1944, to
Lt. Paul L. Seramur USAF., recently re-
turned from service as Navigator on a B24
Liberator Bomber in the South Pacific.

Margaret Wylie Ware and her mother
have been living for a year in Chicago to be
near her son Jack, while he was training in
the Army Air Force. She studied radio sing-
ing and "commercials" for a hobby. Now
that Jack is in the Pacific, she is returning to
her home in California.

1915

Thirtieth Reunion

Reunion Chairman: Miss Marion Brooks,
134 Charles St., Boston.

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Eugene
Bernardin (Mary Flynn), n Abbot St.,
Andover.

Eleanor Bartlett Atwater's husband, David
H. Atwater, died suddenly on September 25,
1944.

Dorothy Gilbert Bellows' son James has
received his commission as Ensign in the
Air Force. Barbara '39, is "somewhere in
Great Britain," with the Red Cross.

Mattie Larrabee Whittemore reports on
her family. "Gertrude (191 5 Class baby, and
daughter-in-law of Emily Willett Rowlands
'97), lives in Wellesley with her three-year-
old son, Hugh, while her husband is on
active duty on the Pacific. Carol Whittemore
Fellows, 1938, has a new son, Russell, born
November 22, '44. Her first baby, Susan, is
now three. They live in Springfield, Vt. My
older son, Ted Jr., is in the Navy V-12 unit
at Bates College, and my younger son Bill
is a sophomore at Noble and Greenough
School. (Of course I wouldn't be bragging,

but has any other member of Class '15 three
grandchil dr en? ! ) "

1916

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. James E.
Downs (Laura Cheever), Andover.

1918

Mariette Goodrich Page has three sons:
Walter a Lt. in the Naval Reserve, William
a cadet in the Coast Guard, and Hazen, a
senior at Phillips Academy.

Katharine Tougas Lombard's daughter
Joan is attending the Bouve-Boston School
of Physical Education.

Married : Virginia Vincent to Burt Greene
Phillips, October 27, 1944.

Dorothea Clark Farnham's son John was
killed in an aviation accident in this country.

Helen Cutting writes that she "enjoyed
summer session at Duke School of Spanish
Studies at Durham, N. C, and hopes to be
there next summer also. Woman's College,
University of North Carolina, where I
teach, is a fine place. Come and see us!"

Mary Davis Irwin has a grandson, James
Everett Collins Jr., born to her daughter
Mary-Louise, October 27, 1944.

1919

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Grace L.
Boynton (Grace Leyser) 30 Engle St.,
Tenafly, New Jersey.

1920
Twenty-Fifth Renuion

Reunion Chairman: Mrs. William W.
Kurth (Isabel Sutherland), 300 North
Main St., Andover.

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Beverly R.
Hubbard (Muriel Moxley), 172 Putnam
Ave., Hamden 14, Conn.

Helen Walker Parsons' husband, Talcott
Parsons, Sociologist, was one of the group
of Harvard professors which won the first
prize of $5000. in the much talked of
Boston contest, with "a practical program
to promote sound growth and prosperity in
the Metropolitan area."

1921

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. David H.
Bigelow (Marion Kimball), 326 Highland
St., West Newton.

Martha Smith Cotter is bringing up a
family of four while her husband, Com-
mander in the Maritime Services, is some-

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where in England. She has hopes of her
oldest daughter entering Abbot in the near
future.

1922

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. A. Evans
Kephart (Ruth Hill), 23 Lyme Rd., Han-
over, N. H.

Beatrice Goff is working in Bloomington,
111., as General Secretary of the Y.W.C.A.

Katherine Damon Kletzien is living in
West Hartford, Conn., while her husband
is in France. She has four children, Edith 13,
Phyllis 1 1 , Damon 7 years old and Ralph
22 months old. She finds herself very busy,
both physically and mentally. The questions
fly thick and fast and in spite of Abbot, she
finds Compton's Encyclopedia a constant
and necessary help. Her oldest daughter is
studying Latin this year and Katherine
writes gratefully to Miss Robinson saying,
"I remember I liked Latin, always felt I un-
derstood the 'ground work,' thanks to you."
Also sent her love to Miss Mason and said
she remembers how much help she was to
her in keeping her class treasurer's book
balanced.

Elizabeth Whittemore has recently taken
the position of executive secretary for the
Girl Scouts of Oahu. She is well qualified, as
she has had a varied experience in a number
of cities in the U.S. We are indebted to
Katherine Farlow Hutchinson's ('27) husband
for this information, as he sent the clipping
from the Honolulu Advertized.

1923

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Sterling Dow
(Elizabeth Flagg), 36 Holden St., Cam-
bridge.

1924

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. A. John
Holden (Polly Bullard), Middlebury, Ver-
mont.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Burke
(Lila Clevenger), a second child, a son
Thomas Clevenger, August 18, 1944.

1925

Twentieth Reunion

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. George B.
Beveridge (Charlotte Hanna), Sanfordtown
Rd., Redding, Conn.

Lt. Com. Leland Burr Jr., husband of
Elizabeth Lincoln, died in January of
wounds received in action in the southern
Pacific.

1926

Catherine McDonnell Sp. Q.3/c, is sta-
tioned at WAVE Quarters D in Washing-
ton. She says, "I have enjoyed the Navy
and my work immensely."

1927

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Carter
(Pauline Humeston), a third child, and
second son, Thomas Benedict, July 15, 1944.

Harriet Nash is Employment Interviewer
for the U.S. Employment Service of the
War Manpower Commission, in Rochester,
New York.

1928

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Emily Sloper,
36 Russell St., New Britain, Conn.

Katherine Fox Smiley reports her busy
life on her farm at Sterling Junction. "You
wouldn't believe an Abbot girl could do all
the things I've tried my hand at lately. I'll
never want to drive four horses again after
driving the big sprayer (holds four hundred
gallons and weighs a cool three tons) ... to
pinch hit when we had no hired man. We
had several groups of British sailors for
apple pickers. What tales they gave you
hints of without talking very much, and
how they enjoyed the green wilderness of
fruit trees, and how they devoured the fresh
bread and plum loaf I made for them. They
wouldn't eat corn on the cob. believe it or
not." With all this farm responsibility she
has had time to keep up her writing."

Helen Leavitt Fisher and husband lead
busy lives. He is minister of a church in
Sheffield, 111., and Helen has her own
church in Providence, 111., twelve miles
distant. They put on a community per-
formance of "The Messiah," with notable
success. Their son, Wilkin, is twenty-eight
months old.

Theodora Talcott Slater reports a daugh-
ter, Shirley, born in 1940. She has also a
son John, born in 1935.

Eleanor Thompson Snedeker is with her
husband, recently returned from the Pacific,
now stationed at Parris Island, S. C.

1929

E. Payson Upham, father of Carol Upham
Fox, died on December 18, 1944, in W 7 aban.

1930
Fifteenth Reunion

Class Fund Chairman: Mrs. Jack R.

Warwick (Mary Jane Owsley), 26 Ledge-
wood Rd., Bronxville, N. Y.

Elizabeth Dean Ballou's husband is on
leave from the faculty of Smith College,
serving as Fighter Director on board one of
the large new carriers. She lives in North-
ampton with her two children, Bob, seven,
and Susan, four vears old.

Alice Hoyt Wood reports a growing family.
Nancy, seven, Jim Jr., four, Elizabeth, two,
and William Hoyt, eight months. She says,
"Still have that Boston accent even after
nine years living in the middle west, but
Nancy certainly is trying to correct me!"

Kathryn Ingram Rowe is living in New
Haven, where her husband is associate pro-
fessor connected with the Institute for Inter-
national Studies at Yale. She has two boys,
Andrew Stewart, five, and Robert Ingram,
two and a half years old.

Ensign Eleanor Ritchie has been in the
Navy for a year, stationed in Washington.

Married: Doris Lydia Sturtevant to
Robert Edwin Bacon, USMC, November,

1944-

1931

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Francis Hol-
land (Barbara Graham), 218 West Marion
St., South Bend, Indiana.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Philip G. Bell
(Gertrud Van Peursem) a son, Philip Gra-
ham, August 2 1 , 1944. Mr. Bell is in the Mer-
chant Marine as Chief instructor of Engi-
neers at the Maritime Service Upgrading
School in New York City.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. John W. Harwick
(Linda Rollins), their fifth child and second
son, Peter Rollins, on November 16, 1944.

Dorothy Stevenson Russell writes from
Houston, Texas, that she has a second
daughter, Janet Goodson, born last July.
Kathryn was three in January.

1932

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Dorothy
Richardson, Boston Rd., Billerica.

Ruth Mailey is a teller in the Bay State
Merchants Bank in Lawrence.

Dorothy Rockwell has received a notable
honor in being elected president of the
Newspaper Guild of Washington; the first
woman to be elected to that office. She con-
tinues as one of the Washington correspond-
ents of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Barbara Tucker is an Ensign with the
WAVES.

1934

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Tyge E. Rothe
(Delight Hall), their second child, a daugh-
ter, Lillian Alden, January 2.

1935

Tenth Reunion

Reunion Chairman: Mrs. Harry L. Mac-
Cready Jr. (Barbara Chamberlain), 421
W. DeSoto St., Pensacola, Florida.

Born: To 2nd Lt. and Mrs. Herbert H.
Garrison (Elizabeth Murphy) twin sons,
Mark Chapin and Ray Hermon, June 13,

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Born: To Dr. and Mrs. Alan W. Fraser

(Katharine Scudder) a second daughter,

Joy, October 17, 1944.

1936

Priscilla Mailey is teaching at the Marble-
head High School.

Grace Nichols Knight is staff nurse with
the Visiting Nurse Association in New
Haven, Conn. She writes that she "is among
the few fortunate ones who is able to have a
home with my husband, who is doing gradu-
ate study at Yale."

Elinor Robinson is a cadet nurse at the
Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.

Born: To Lt. and Mrs. John L. Simonds
(Mary Trafton) a daughter, Virginia Traf-
ton, October 10, 1944.

1937

Charlotte Boynton and Barbara Bellows
'39, went across to England on the same
ship, and are still working together with the
Red Cross.

Louise Risley Floyd is taking the Social
Service course at Simmons College.

Ruth Rose is training at the Third WAC
Training Center at Fort Ogelthorpe, Ga.

Born: To Lt. (j.g.) and Mrs. Warren S.
Wilkinson (Joan Todd), their second child,
a son, Todd Scripps, June 26, 1944. Lt.
Wilkinson is with the Seabees in the Pacific

area.

1938

Mary Ailing is doing post-graduate work
at the University of Michigan.

Phyllis England Letts is working as secre-
tary and receptionist at the Westover School
in Conn., and her husband is principal of
the Shepardson School in Middlebury.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Henry Biedenham
(Dorothy Hudson), their second child, a

daughter Dorothy, July 3, 1944. Doll's hus-
band is Flight Instructor in the Navy at
Bunker Hill, Indiana, and they live in Koko-
mo, Indiana.

Born: To Lt. and Mrs. John White
(Anne Simpson) twin daughters, Susan and
Leslie, February 14, 1944.

Born: To Lt. (j.g.) and Mrs. Peter Prud-
den (Constance Thurber) a daughter,
Joanna, October 19, 1944.

Born : To Mr. and Mrs. Edwin R. Fellows
(Carol Whittemore) their second child, a
son, Russell Miller Fellows II, November
22, 1944.

1939

Sarah Bradley Deuell is at home with her
mother in Hornell, N. Y. She hopes to join
her husband, an aviation cadet in the Army
Air Force, at Maxwell Field, Ala., later in
the spring.

Lucia Buchanan is working at the Mass.
General Hospital in Boston.

1940

Fifth Reunion

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Carl H.
Bolter (Jane Wilson), Apt. 12, 361 Harvard
St., Cambridge.

Kathryn Bixby is a Technician 4th grade
in the WACS. She is assigned to the General
Staff in the Pentagon, Washington, and re-
ports that she finds her work very interesting.

Born: To Lt. Com. and Mrs. Daniel
Hogan Jr. (Gisela Bolten), a daughter,
Gisela Barrie, January 7.

Engaged: Suzanne Chadwick to Erie
William Gilbert.

Engaged: Frances Chandler to Cadet C.
W. Partridge Jr., West Point. Frances is
working at the Baptist School of Dancing in
Boston, with both teaching and secretarial
duties.

Ann Clement has joined the WAVES.

Jeanne Cowles Wilson is living in Boston
while her husband is serving his nine months
interneship at the Mass. General Hospital.

Carolyn Cross is continuing her studies at
M.I.T., and doing research for the Quarter-
master Corps on the side.

Mary Howard is travelling around the
country in the interests of the World Student
Service Fund.

Engaged: Marietta Meyer to William A.
Ekberg. She expects to be married in June
when he graduates from West Point.

Susan Place answers our cry for news!

"My life has followed the pattern I had
planned at Abbot. Sept. 1940 found me at
Syracuse University, loving every minute of
it. Not until this year did I discover that
"Tish" Downey had joined the same sorori-
ty, Gamma Phi Beta, at Stamford, as I did
at Syracuse. After four full and glorious
years I graduated last May. In June I
started working for G.E., in the Aircraft
Instructional Section of the Publicity Dept.
It is just the position I wanted and Schenec-
tady is a friendly city, so I am enjoying my
life immensely."

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Guy deBrun
(Jaqueline Proctor) a daughter Jeannie,
October 24, 1944.

Anne Rivinius is representative and
junior salesman for International Business
Machines, in eastern New England.

Born: To Lt. and Mrs. Franklin R. Hoar
(Doris Sawyer) a daughter, Stephanie
Bradford, December 20, 1944.

Married: Bonney Wilson to Cpl. Richard
A. Hakanson USAAF, December 2, 1944.
At present he is stationed at Barksdale Field,
Shreveport, La.

Nancy Wilscn Ainslie graduated last June
from Wheelock College, and is now teaching
at the Dedham Country Day School.

Married: Susan Woodman to Ens. Robert
T. McSherry, January 15, at Concord, N. H.
She will live in San Diego, Cal.

Engaged: Joan Wyatt to Lt. Donald
Bramley, USAAF.

1941

Married: Pvt. Joan Belden to Platoon
Sgt. A. H. McDonough USMC, December
5, 1944. Address: WR Bn. Bks. 338, Marine
Corps Base, San Diego, 40, Cal.

Lt. Lawrence Scofield, husband of Jean-
nette Biart, was killed in a plane crash at
Tampa, Florida, on November 18, 1944,
just before he was to go overseas.

Jane Davey sends greetings from Lake
Placid, N. Y., where she has, "a position
at the North Country School. My duties are
numerous, interesting and never dull. Am in
charge of the horses, teach riding, counselor
duties, and assist with the fourth and fifth
grades. Best wishes to all."

Margaret Little Dice has graduated from
the University of Michigan, and is now with
her husband in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Sue Long Kremer's husband died in
action on December 30, 1944, in Luxem-

bourg. Following his release from a German
prison camp, he was severely wounded, at
which time he received the "Purple Heart."
After recovery he returned to the front
where he received fatal wounds.

Born: To Lt. and Mrs. Roger W. Black-
more (Polly Packard), a son, Paul Packard,
November 3, 1944. Polly is living with her
mother in Ashland, N. H., while her hus-
band flies a Liberator bomber over the
Pacific.

Married: Eloise Perkins to Cpl. Robert M.
Blizzard, March 6, 1944. While her husband
is in France with the Medical Corps, Eloise
plans to work in Schenectady, N. Y. She
graduated from Mt. Holyoke in August.

Born: To Lt. (j.g.) and Mrs. Stanley M.
Vermeil (Louella Sommer) a son, Peter
Sommer, October 29, 1944.

Engaged: Adeline Waterhouse to Philip
Mackay III. Her wedding is planned for
February 24.

Born: To Capt. and Mrs. Edgar J. Wicker
(Dorothy White) a son, Edgar John Jr.,
November 8, 1944.

1942

Engaged: Mary Lou Gilbert to Cpl.
Burnett Graham Bartley Jr.

Shirley Ann Harrison (aff. '42), graduated
from Kendall Hall School, and is now at-
tending Vesper George School of Art, in
Boston.

Engaged: Barbara Robjent to Lt. Herbert
Pickford Moore, U.S.A.

During last summer Margaret Sime
wrote from Scotland to a friend, "At the
moment I am in the throes of work. Chem-
istry and physics which I am having extra
tutoring for and am sitting in September.
The intention of the powers that be at the

moment seem to be to make a chemist of
me. For the rest of the time I read and mend
clothes. It seems I have an unending stream
of stockings to mend, they stand so little,
and are so precious."

Engaged: Thirsa Sands to Lt. (j.g.) Rob-
erts S. Fuiks USNR. Thirsa has transferred
to Smith College, where she is rooming
with Betsey Fowler.

Married: Elsie Williams to Lt. Ery Whi-
taker Kehaya, AAC, October 7, 1944, in
New York City.

1943

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Marion
Burdine, Hollins College, Va.

Engaged: Marion Burdine to John Han-
cock Notman.

Jean Craig has transferred from Wellesley
College to the University of Michigan.

Catherine Feeney has transferred to
Cornell University.

Honora Haynes is working in a machine
shop as a machinist, and living at home in
Weston. Her brother was killed in action
in France last fall.

Margaret Jacobus plans to enter the
University of California in March. As her
father died last May, her mother will go
there with her.

Engaged: Mary Ann Moss to Flight Officer
Ralph C. Chaplin AAC. While he is over-
seas Mary Ann is secretary for the Carter
Oil Co., in Billings, Montana.

Anne Pearson has joined the WAVES
hoping to be assigned to the hospital corps.

1944
First Reunion

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Nancy Mc-
Ivor, Cushing House, Smith College, North-
ampton.

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Abbot Academy Bulletin

May

1945

Abbot Academy Alumnae Association

Associate Member of American Alumni Council

President
Mrs. Rolfe M. Kennedy
(Roberta Kendall)
Douglaston, N. Y.

Vice-presidents
Mrs. Frank G. d'Elseaux
(Virginia Gay)
Winchester, Mass.

Mrs. Douglas Donald
(Edith Johnson)
Andover, Mass.

Mrs. Ernest L. Tillson
(Gwendolyn Bloomfield)
Wellesley Hills, Mass.

OFFICERS, 1 944- 1 946

Clerk
Mrs. Edwin H. Goodwin
(Susan Hildreth)
Winchester, Mass.

Treasurer
Mrs. James E. Downs
(Laura Cheever)
Andover, Mass.

Social Secretary
Mrs. Reeve Chipman
(Constance Parker)
Andover, Mass.

Executive Secretary
Miss Marion R. McPherson
Andover, Mass.

ALUMNAE TRUSTEES

i939- J 945 . 1942-194^

Mrs. A. John Holden Miss Margaret Van Voorhis

(Polly Bullard) 304 Lexington Ave.

Middlebury, Vermont New York City, New York

ABBOT CLUB PRESIDENTS

Boston
Mrs. Ernest L. Tillson
(Gwendolyn Bloomfield)
Wellesley Hills, Mass.

Chicago
Mrs. J. Allen Lind
(Mary Simpson)
1239 Asbury Ave.
Winnetka, Illinois

Connecticut
Miss Sara G. Peck
20 Fairview Terrace
Derby, Conn.

Detroit
Mrs. Thomas A. Nalle
(Harriet Balfe)
1 2 1 1 Willow Lane
Birmingham, Michigan

Maine, Eastern
Miss Eleanor Bird
250 Broadway
Rockland, Maine

Maine, Western
Mrs. Harold Robinson
(Harriette Wool ver ton)
Cape Elizabeth, Maine

New York
Miss Gertrude Holbrook
Larchmont, N. Y.

Ohio, Central
Mrs. Paul Meek
(Louise Norpell)
Worthington, Ohio

Ohio, Cleveland
Mrs. George Worthington
(Madeleine Fiske)
Chesterland, Ohio

Old Colony
Mrs. Richard M. Thompson
(Ruth Niles)
300 Woodlawn St.
Fall River, Mass.

Pittsburgh
Mrs. George H. Jackson
(Gertrude Miller)
515 No. McKean St.
Butler, Pa.

ABBOT ACADEMY BULLETIN

Series 12 MAY 1945 Issue 3

Table of Contents

Frontispiece: Abbot Leaders in Education
The Spirit of Abbot in Education

What to Read?

An Invitation

Commencement Program

Reunion Chairmen

Alumnae Day

Abbot Clubs

Felicitations

In Memoriam

Class News

C. P. C.

Alice C. Sweeney igi4
Marguerite Hearsey

page

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6

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8

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10

THE EDITORIAL BOARD

JANE B. CARPENTER, 1892, honorary

CONSTANCE PARKER CHIPMAN, 1906, Editor in Chief

MARION R. McPHERSON, 1918

ROBERTA KENDALL KENNEDY, 1929, ex officio

Published four times yearly, October, February, May, and September, by Abbot Acad-
emy, Andover, Massachusetts.

Entered as second class matter December 12, 1933, at the post office at Andover, Massa-
chusetts, under the act of August 24, 191 2.

MARGARET BAILEY SPEER

Abbot 1918, Bryn Mawr Col-
lege 1922. Dean of Yenching
University, Peiping, China,
1 933- 1 942. Since 1944 head-
mistress of the Shipley School,
Bryn Mawr.

Abbot Leaders

Education

ADELAIDE V. V. BLACK

Abbot 1926. Graduate of Kath-
arine Gibbs School. Appointed
Alumnae Secretary of all the
Katharine Gibbs Schools in
1 93 1, then Registrar of the
New York School in 1933. In
1944 she was made Dean of the
New York School.

MIRA BIGELOW WILSON

Abbot 1 910, Smith College
1 9 14. Boston University School
of Theology 1918. Instructor
of Bible at Smith 1 921 -1923.
From 1 923- 1 929 Assistant Pro-
fessor of Biblical Literature at
Smith, and Class Dean. In
1928 she was appointed prin-
cipal of the Northfield School
for Girls. She was Alumna
Trustee from 1 931 -1936, and
then was elected as a perman-
ent member of the Abbot
Board of Trustees.

ALICE CURTISS SWEE1

Abbot 1 914, Vassar Col
1 918. Teacher of English
Abbot 1920-1923. Since 3
Director of Studies at Abbe

MARIATTA TOWEF

Abbot 1933, Wellesley Coj

1937. Teacher of mathem'
at Northfield School for <

1938. Received her M.A. i.
the University of Wiscoj
1943. In 1945 appointee
assistant principal and din
of extracurricular activiti<
Northfield.

The Spirit of Abbot in Education

ABBOT was founded on the rock of integrity, high principles and stand-
ards, governed by religious feeling and inspiration. With these stand-
ards incorporated into the daily life and teaching she has produced through
her one hundred and sixteen years women of high character and notable
leadership in many fields of activity.

In the field of education, Mary Robbins Hillard, Abbot 1883, founder
and headmistress of Westover School for twenty-five years, until her death in
1932, was a distinguished predecessor of the group of Abbot graduates who
are now headmistresses and deans of private schools, and whose photographs
are presented here.

Each of these women has the rare ability to remember her school days,
and thus understand more thoughtfully the mind of the young girl. Margaret
Speer has said, "I am having great fun here and think back to Abbot days
very often as I try to look at things from a boarding school girl's point of

view."

In the recently published life of Mary Hillard, by Bishop John T. Dallas,
he quotes her approach to youth, which is the same as that of our twentieth
century educators. "To those spending a lifetime in the service of education,
the most fascinating aspect of the work with the young is the constant re-
emergence, with a freshness and novelty like that of a new discovery, of the
sensitiveness of youth to 'real existence, colorless, formless, intangible, visible
only to the intelligence that sits at the helm of the soul.' The need of youth is
to find and experience this existence."

The objective of leaders of youth today is ably expressed by Abbot's
headmistress, Marguerite Hearsey, when she says: "We believe that our best
contribution during the war years will be made by providing for our students
conditions which will be as healthful and safe as possible, and sound psy-
chologically. We cannot and would not shield them from the impact and
implications of the war, but it is our hope that when they graduate they will
have physical endurance and mental vigor, and that they will be well-bal-
anced emotionally. Beneath and beyond this, it will be our constant endeavor
to develop in them spiritual resources which will sustain them in the ines-
capably difficult years that lie ahead."

Abbot has more than noble traditions, with these she has blended a vital,
living spirit, as shown in these, her representatives, leaders in other schools,
and in her present efforts to train leaders for a future world in which they
will be sorely needed.

Kj. -T. Cj.

What to Read?

Alice C. Sweeney, 1914

On the assumption that many of our readers may feel, particularly this
summer, a desire to escape from the impact of daily war bulletins and the
weight of world problems, back into the quiet world of books we are giving
below a few suggestions for reading.

We have arbitrarily limited the number of titles to twenty-five, and so
far as kind and contents is concerned the selection of books has been just
about as arbitrary; but the list is launched in the confidence that suggestions
are a help to ultimate discovery and if these books are not what you want,
the search for them may lead you to others of their kind which are to your
taste.

DO YOU WANT TO KNOW
INTERESTING PEOPLE?

The Autobiography of Montaigne, M.

Lowenthal
Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, K.

Campbell
The Letters and Friendships of Cecil

Spring Rice
The Letters of Gertrude Bell
Sutter's Gold, B. Cendras
The Autobiography of A. A. Milne

POETRY

The Name and Nature of Poetry, A. E.

Housman
Discovering Poetry, Elizabeth Drew
The Oxford Book of Modern Verse

HAVE YOU REALLY READ?

•

Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Moby, Dick, Melville
Jean Chris tophe, R. Rolland
Candide, Voltaire

BACKGROUNDS FOR THE

NEWS

The Greek Commonwealth

Learning and Leadership, Alfred Zim-

mern
Englishmen, Frenchmen and Spaniards,

Madariaga
Chartres and Mont Saint Michel, H.

Adams
The Modern Theme, Ortega y Gasset

RANDOM SUGGESTIONS

Shakespeare Without Tears, Margaret

Webster
The Gobi Desert, M. Cable
The Art of Friendship, A. Bonnard
Giants in the Earth, Rolvaag
Ultima Thule, H. H. Richardson
Amenities of Book Collecting, E. A.

Newton
From These Roots, Mary Colum

An Invitation

One of the lesser disasters of the war is the havoc that it has played with
our school and college calendars. No longer is June the month of graduation.
In these recent years Commencements have come in almost any month of
the year and the "pomp and circumstance" of pre-war graduation is some-
what muted. But, in spite of the unusually early date and other vicissitudes,
we hope to have a beautiful and inspiring weekend for our Abbot Commence-
ment this year. Draper Dramatics will be "Romeo and Juliet," with partici-
pants of the age Shakespeare had in mind when he dreamed of and wrote the
play; and the concert on Sunday night will be, as it always is, a charming
and amazingly competent program. The speakers both for the Baccalaureate
Sermon, and the Commencement Address on Monday, are very special.

But it is not so much for the program that the school invites the Alumnae
to return, if they can. It is for the joy and refreshment that you can find in
this familiar old, youthful place, and for the renewing of friendships that
have been so much a part of your life.

Travel restrictions doubtless prevent the return of those who live far away —
but there are many within a comparatively nearby radius of Andover and,
so absorbing are the demands of our busy lives that we go often for years
without seeing Abbot friends who live perhaps only twenty-five miles away.
If you can plan a pilgrimage to Abbot this spring — if only for one day, May
nineteenth, — you will find it rewarding. You will be warmly welcome, and
even if the menu for lunch and dinner may not be filet mignon at least you
will not have to prepare it yourselves, nor do the dishes afterwards ! All who
return are cordially invited to have dinner in the school dining room on
Saturday night!

My greetings and best wishes to every alumna — however far away — and
the hope that many nearby may be able to reunite for at least a day and see
the way your Abbot and your "little sisters" of today are carrying on the old
and creating the new as they live and study here.

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You are invited to attend the
One hundred and sixteenth Commencement of

Abbot Academy
May eighteenth to May twenty-first

PROGRAM

May i 8, 7.30 p.m.

Tree and Ivy Planting
Singing on Steps of Abbot Hall

May 19

Alumnae Day

Class Reunion Luncheons

Annual Meeting of the Alumnae Association, 2.45 p.m.

Draper Dramatics, "Romeo and Juliet," 8 p.m.

May 20

Baccalaureate 10.45 a.m. South Church

Sermon by The Rev. John Edgar Park, D.D., President

Emeritus of Wheaton College
Commencement Concert 7.30 p.m.

May 21

Graduation Exercises 10 a.m. South Church
Address by The Rev. James T. Cleland, D.D.
Chaplain at Amherst College

Class Reunion Chairmen

1890 Miss Jessie Guernsey, 28 Sagamore Ave., West Medford, 55

1895 Mrs. Carl Kelsey (Gertrude Haldeman), Mendenhall, Pa.

1900 Miss Mary E. Bancroft, Andover

1905 Mrs. William S. Knickerbocker (Frances Cutler), Loomis School,

Windsor, Conn.
1910 Mrs. Owen Morgan (Emily Silsby), 55 High Ridge Rd., West Hart-
ford, Conn.
1 91 5 Miss Marion Brooks, 134 Charles St., Boston

1920 Mrs. William Kurth (Isabel Sutherland), 300 No. Main St., Andover
1925 Mrs. Merrill Hay (Evelyn McDougall), Cape Cottage, Maine
1930 Mrs. Robert U. Ingraham (Kathie Fellows), 311 Conestoga Rd.,

Wayne, Pa.
1935 Mrs. Harry L. MacCready, Jr. (Barbara Chamberlain), 421 W.

DeSoto St., Pensacola, Fla.
1940 Mrs. Philip D. Wilson, Jr. (Jeanne Cowles), 3 Poplar Place, Boston
1944 Miss Molly Hubbard, Lake Erie College, Painesville, Ohio

Alumnae Day, May 19

During the noon hours 12- 1.30, Mrs. Chipman will serve a buffet
luncheon, at a moderate charge, at her home, 5 Morton Street. It is essential
that reservations be made in advance.

Dinner will be served to alumnae in the school dining room with the school
at 6.15 p.m. Please mail reservations for lunch, dinner, and rooms at once.

The annual meeting of the Alumnae Association will be held at 2.45 p.m.
in Abbot Hall.

APPLICATIONS FOR RESERVATIONS

Please tear out and mail the following applications for reservations at once to
The Alumnae Office, Abbot Academy, Andover, Mass.

I wish to reserve a double. . . room; a single. . .room; for May 18. . ., May
19. . ., May 20. . ..

Name Class

(Maiden name) .'

(Address) Postal District No.

I expect to attend the Alumnae luncheon, served from 12- 1.30, at Mrs.
Chipman's home, 5 Morton St., Andover, May 19.

Name Class

(Maiden name)

(Address) Postal District No.

I expect to attend dinner with the school, May 19, at 6 p.m.

Name Class

(Maiden name)

Address Postal District No.

Abbot Clubs

BOSTON (1892): President, Mrs. Gwen-
dolyn Bloomfield Tillson, '22; Vice-presidents,
Mrs. Virginia Gay d'Elseaux '28; Mrs.
Elizabeth Sage Batchelder '33; Recording
Secretary, Mrs. Louise Risley Floyd '37;
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Marion Conant
Ireland '27; Treasurer, Mrs. Margaret Nay
Gramkow '27; Auditor, Mrs. Mary Piper
Sears '28; Program Chairman, Mrs. Faith
Chipman Parker '31; Directors 1944- 1946,
Mrs. Katharine Allen Babson '31, Mrs.
Martha Ransom Tucker '37, Miss Priscilla
Richards '31. Directors 1945-1947, Mrs.
Lydia Kunkel Eldredge '21, Miss Irene
Atwood '18, Mrs. Ruth Baker Johnson '30.

The Alumnae Association and the Boston
Club held their spring meeting on April 7,
at the College Club, Boston. Following the
annual meeting and election of new officers
for the Abbot Club, Miss Atwood turned the
meeting over to Mrs. d'Elseaux, Vice-presi-
dent of the Alumnae Association, who pre-
sided in the absence of the President, Mrs.
Roberta Kendall Kennedy. Miss Hearsey
spoke on Abbot, and Mrs. Alice Dixon Bond
gave a delightful book review.

CHICAGO (1921): President, Mrs. J.
Allen Lind (Mary Simpson); Secretary, Mrs.
Edith Bullen Creeden, 461 Hill Rd., Win-
netka; Treasurer, Mrs. Margaret Hall Walker.

CONNECTICUT (1923): President, Miss
Sara Peck, 20 Fairview Ter., Derby; Secre-
tary-Treasurer, Mrs. Virginia Lawton Cheney,
36 Morse St., Hamden.

The Connecticut club plans to have some
regional meetings in May. The regular an-
nual meeting for the state will be held early
in the fall.

DETROIT (1922): President, Mrs. Thom-
as Nalle (Harriet Balfe), 121 1 Willow Lane,
Birmingham.

MAINE, EASTERN (1926): President,
Miss Eleanor Bird, 250 Broadway, Rockland;
Vice-President, Mrs. Frances McDougall
McLoon; Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. An-
netta Richards Bryant, Round Pond.

MAINE, WESTERN (1922): President,
Mrs. Harold Robinson (Harriette Woolver-
ton), Cape Elizabeth; Treasurer, Mrs. Char-
lotte Baldwin Frohock.

NEW YORK (1898): President, Miss
Gertrude Holbrook '25; Vice-presidents, Mrs.
Laura Scudder Williamson '24, Mrs. Helga
Lundin Buttrick '23; Recording Secretary, Mrs.
Grace Leyser Boynton '19; Corresponding
Secretary, Mrs. Jane Owsley Warwick '30;
Directors, Mrs. Helen Danforth Prudden '13,
Mrs. Eunice Meigs Pease '21, Mrs. Ethel
Thompson James '24.

The spring meeting was held on April 14,
at the Hotel New Weston, at 12.30. Follow-
ing the election of new officers, the club was
happy to welcome Miss Hearsey, and Miss
Margaret Speer 191 8, Headmistress of the
Shipley School.

OHIO, CENTRAL (1921): President,
Secretary, Mrs. Paul Meek (Louise Norpell),
5600 Meek Rd., Worthington.

OHIO, CLEVELAND (1927): President,
Mrs. George Worthington (Madeleine Fiske),
Chesterland, Ohio.

OLD COLONY (1924): President, Mrs.
Richard M. Thompson (Ruth Niles), 300
Woodlawn St., Fall River; Secretary and
Treasurer, Mrs. Louise Thompson Cortrell,
372 Madison St., Fall River.

PITTSBURGH (1921): President, Mrs.
George H.Jackson (Gertrude Miller) , Butler,
Pa.; Secretary, Mrs. Joseph M. Browne (Eliza
Atwell), 529 Pine Rd., Sewickley.

Felicitations I

Congratulations are due Miss Hearsey, who in February was elected
President of the National Association of Principals of Schools for Girls.

Congratulations are due the school as the following members of the
faculty complete decades, or a decade of service. The Alumnae Association
extends to them its happy recognition, and best wishes. Mary Carpenter, for
twenty years Director of Physical Education; Louise Robinson for twenty
years assistant Financial Secretary; Alice Sweeney, teacher of English for ten
years, and Barbara Humes, assistant to the Principal for ten years.

School Calendar for May

May

5
6

r 3

18-21

Sept. 18

Abbot Birthday Celebration
Vespers; The Rev. Sidney

Lovett, D.D., Chaplain

Yale University
"A" Society Picnic
Field Day
Senior Banquet
Organ Recital, Walter Howe
Commencement
Opening of fall term

Cum Laude Awards — April, ig4$

Barbara Beecher
Martha Ann Boynton
Gretchen Fuller
Sally Leavitt
Grace Lurton
Hilary Paterson
Shirley Sommer
Madge Twomey
Holly Welles

In Memoriam

1879

Millie Berry, wife of Henry P. Keith, died
on March 8, in Hollis, N. Y.

1881

Sarah Puffer, widow of Monroe Spencer
McCay, died on February 11, in Winter
Park, Florida.

1882

Caroline Knowles, wife of Alfred O.
Doane, died on February 13, at the age of
eighty years.

1884

Alfreda Johnson, widow of Frank C. Bol-
ton, died March 17, in Baltimore, Md. She
is survived by two sons, eight grandchildren
and three great grandchildren.

1886

Kathreen A. Sanborn, wife of the late
Robert M. McCulloch, died on February 4,
in Redlands, California.

1891

Lena Hinchman, wife of the late Dr.

Charles E. Townsend, died in Newburgh,
N. Y., on February 26. Abbot has lost a
loyal and devoted friend in Mrs. Town-
send's passing. She was a generous contrib-
utor to the needs of the school, as well as to
the many church and civic organizations
with which she was connected. In 191 6 she
served a term as president of the New York
Abbot Club. She is survived by her niece
Evaline Korn, Abbot 1906.

1893

Lida Scott, wife of Scott Brown, died in
Pasadena, Cal., June 19, 1943.

1898

Elizabeth Dowse Coolidge died in Sher-
born, on February 15.

1920

Ruby Abbott, a bed invalid for nineteen
years, died on April 5, in Brookline. She
kept a keen interest in Abbot, and her con-
stant companion was a cocker, given her by
an Abbot friend.

Class News

The response of personal news items which have been returned with
the trustee ballots, and through class reunion appeals, comprise the
great part of these class news items. In the back of this Bulletin is a
page ready for your use for the October issue. Keep 'em coming/ Mews
of you is wanted!

1877

Ellen Emerson Cary is rejoicing in the news
that her son Frank has been released from
a Jap prison camp, and her daughter Alice is
in Honolulu.

1880

Emma Chadbourne Wood writes "A. A. is a
touch stone to every loyal heart, and to her
I owe much for helpfulness to my husband
in various parishes for over forty years."
She signed her note of reminiscences ' ' Little
Emma C," of Gladys Hasty Carroll's
" Dunnybrook. "

1860-1891

Class Funds Secretary: Mrs. Ernest C.
Young (Ruth Childs) 6 Emerson St., Brook-
line.

1881

Emma Abbott Allen says, "Some are born
great, some have greatness thrust upon
them," I am a proud great-grandmother of
two dear boys, Benjamin Bray ton, five years,
and Abbott Allen Br ay ton two years old.
I am living with my son, Abbott Allen in
West Medford.

1886

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Frank W.
Darling (Mary Gorton) Hampton, Virginia.

Mrs. Darling held a reunion of her famous
class at the meeting of the Boston Abbot
Club, on April 7. Present with herself were:
Jennie Lanphear Buck, Harriet Raymond
Brosnan, Frances Swazey Parker and Lucia
Trevitt Auryansen.

1887

From Ernestine Wyer Mears, "Life, we
have been long together, In sunshine and in
stormy weather," mostly sunshine as room-
mate of Jessie Guernsey in old German Hall.
Later for forty-five years in a Congregational
Manse, five splendid children caring for us
now, and all active in life's busiest, most
helpful and necessary places."

1875
Seventieth Anniversary

Greetings and love from the girl of yester-
day to the youth of today!

Let me whisper in your ear that growing
old is no fun, with eyes that grow dim and
ears that do not hear so well, with hands
that could not be depended upon to do your
will, an engine working overtime and no
extra pay! Such are my embellishments!

The two years I spent at Abbot Academy
are among the brightest of memories — that
long hill covered with snow where we were
allowed to coast occasionally on a sled guided
by a "Theolog" was quite exciting after the
study of the Constitution of the United
States or Butler's Analogy.

With best wishes to all my sister friends for
happiness and peace.

Mary Pierce Paine
1536 Vine St., Denver, Col.

1890
Fifty-fifth Reunion

There were only nine of us in 1890 and we
never kept up a Round Robin letter as did
1889. I wish we had. Two former school
teachers are living today. Anna S. Johnston
is in Mount Vernon, New York, where for
years she taught in the High School. She is
evidently up to her eyes in church work,
Red Cross, Bundles for America, and civic
interests in general. She belongs to two read-
ing groups who like to have her review books
for them, is near enough New York for Sat-
urday operas and other delights, and surely
must be all vigor as she writes of showing
New York to her guests — supreme under-
taking! She spends her summers with her
brother and his family in Binghamton,
N. Y., or at their Quaker Lake cottage.

Jessie Elizabeth Guernsey retired officially
at seventy in 1939, taught two more happy
years in the mountains of North Carolina

(most beautiful state east of the Rockies),
and so rounded out forty-five years of teach-
ing, twenty-nine of them in the South.

There are some class children and grand-
children. Elizabeth Brainerd married Prof.
Carl Copping Plehn, well known economist
of the University of California. Of their two
children, Prof. Plehn writes that the son,
Brainerd, who has a little daughter, has
recently given up a professorship in engin-
eering at Stanford University, and is with
the Standard Oil Co. in Berkeley. The
daughter, Mary Elizabeth, is now Mrs.
Robert L. Roe and has moved from Berkeley
to the Carmel Valley. They have a little girl
two years old.

Of Edie Dewey Jones' two daughters,
Catharine is Mrs. Edgar A. Wotten of Con-
cord, Mass. She is Associate Prof, of Biology
at Simmons College, and Mr. Wotten is in a
Hingham Navy Shipbuilding unit. After
weeks of anxiety over their only son, reported
missing, they have learned that he gave his
life in battle in France last December. They
have one daughter. Edie's other daughter
Hilda, now Mrs. May, lives in Rochester,
N. Y., where Mr. May is professor of Mod-
ern History in the University of Rochester.
They have two sons who, according to their
aunt, Kathleen Jones '89, are very fine
young folks.

I wish I knew whether there are other
children or grandchildren of the class.

And now I am wondering what to try to
tell of the enriching of experiences by years
at Abbot. It is one's early school that counts
most indelibly. I am devoted to Columbia,
but it was the stimulus of Abbot which took
me there in search of degrees, and to later
summer sessions there, and in other univer-
sities. Such teaching as we had at Abbot!

Last year's May Bulletin and its letter
from Dr. Jane L. Greeley sent me back in
memory to her superb teaching of Latin.
Miss Emily Means made Saturday morning
drawing and painting a key to the joys of a
life-time, and both Miss Greeley and Miss
Means gave inspiring influence as well as
wonderful teaching. Miss Kelsey, Miss Abby
Mitchell and Miss Kimball were also great
teachers, only Miss Kimball deserted us and
got married. Not that we knew then what
these teachers did for us. It took the years to
teach us that. Let the Faculty of today
remember.

Is there anything that the History of Art

has not touched? We were at Beni Hassan in
Egypt. I had a picture of that in my art
scrap book and pictures of Luxor and Kar-
nak. Art museums in Dresden and Berlin,
in London and Paris, the Hermitage in
Leningrad, the Uffizi and the Pitti in Flor-
ence, the Prado in Madrid, the museums in
this country; old friends of the Abbot art
course in all of them.

French and German Halls did wonders in
creating lovers of Modern Languages with
an understanding of the two countries. My
three years in German Hall paid great
dividends during summers in Germany,
once a summer course at Heidelberg Uni-
versity; tramping in the Harz, the Black
Forest, the Fichtel Gebirge, secure in the
knowledge that the language would be
no barrier to the friendly relations every-
where. Memories of Goethe and Schiller in
Weimar, in Frankfurt, and on the Brocken
brought back charming Fraulein Bodemeyer
and Fraulein Heitmuller. One summer, I
surprised Fraulein Schiefferdecker at Pretch
auf der Elbe.

Abbot didn't make me teach History; fate
did that. And Abbot, as far as I know, didn't
send me South to teach colored people, but
some kind fate did. Out of twenty-seven
years in colored schools, the last ten were
spent in St. Augustine's College, Raleigh,
N. C, under the Episcopal Church. When
one adds to the all-sufficient joys of teaching,
a student body many of whom are artistic,
musical, dramatic, spiritually gifted and yet
are denied their fair chance of opportunity,
years are rich indeed.

The Abbot Courant did much for us in the
old days, for which we are grateful. But a
priceless gift which must not be left out is the
everlasting permanence of Abbot friendships.
Mary G. Peabody '89, my roommate for one
year, landed me in my first teaching position
where I stayed for sixteen years; she was in
New York teaching in the Horace Mann
School when I went to Columbia, and is still
the friend of old days.

From all signs, Abbot girls of today are of
fine quality, and the idea of today's activ-
ities including the discussion of present-day
problems which Miss Hearsey's delightful
January letter gives makes one wish one
could send one's friends to Andover. Social
opportunities sound so human! In our day,
no dangerous boy from Phillips was allowed
to call unless he was a relative, or was some-

one known before we came to Abbot. To be
sure, there were the theologues from the
Seminary then on the hill. They were favored
callers at any time, perhaps for that very
reason not considered very desirable!

I am glad the girls of today do not study
Fairchild's "Moral Philosophy," Wright's
"Christian Evidences," or Butler's "Anal-
ogy." I am sure the girls get in other ways
what those awe-inspiring volumes were sup-
posed to give us.

Last year's May Bulletin with its pic-
tures of returning classes was most interest-
ing. I wish I could go to this year's Com-
mencement, but I fractured rxiy hip when in
Kansas in '42, and my activities are still de-
cidedly curtailed. A crutch and cane do not
lend themselves to much gadding about.
Good wishes I shall send in abundance.
Jessie Elizabeth Guernsey,
28 Sagamore Ave.,
West Medford 55, Mass.

Anna Sophia Wells Bigelow writes, "After
eighteen years as Executive Secretary with
the New York City Missionary Society, I
retired, February 1944, to this corner of
Paradise (Seven Acres, Wilton, Conn.), with
friends, piano, reading, knitting. Waiting
for the snow to disappear, so gardening can
begin."

1891

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Daniel B.
Hardenbergh (Annie Bull), 7 Orchard St.,
Middletown, N. Y.

1892

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Jane B. Car-
penter, School St., Andover.

Nettie Heritage Warner's son, Dr. Stanley
B. Warner, is head of the Cancer Research
laboratory in Springville, N. Y. This labora-
tory is part of the State Institute for the study
of Malignant Diseases in Buffalo, N. Y.

1893

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Harry R.
Miles (Anna Nettleton), 4 Rock Ledge
Drive, Stamford, Conn.

1894

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Doremus
Scudder (Mabel Scudder), 133 West Ninth
St., Claremont, Cal.

Mrs. Scudder is coming east to see her
granddaughters, and include Abbot Com-
mencement.

1895

Fiftieth Reunion

Dear Classmates: I have written twelve
letters asking you to write a letter for our
Fiftieth Reunion. At first I thought I could
never do it, but each letter became easier
to write and when I had written the twelfth
I felt as though I had visited with each of you
and was almost fifty years younger. I enjoyed
it and wonder if it was because I did all the
talking, and I hope you will get as much of
a thrill reading the letters in the Bulletin
as I have from the friendly notes you have
sent me. I have often thought I spent too
much time getting the Courant out of the deep
end instead of trying to create a deeper and
more loyal class feeling. I think the Bulletin
is a big improvement over the Courant
which I never read, but, I do look over the
Bulletin and always find notes about some
one I knew at Abbot.

You probably know that six of our class
have slipped away, but we are still a majority.

For the past forty years I have lived in the
country, twenty-nine miles west of Phila-
delphia, and don't let anyone tell you there
is ever a dull moment in the country, for
nature and animals are always changing and
interesting. Of course it is confining but
during this time I have made four trips from
coast to coast by auto and before the days
of good roads and camps, sort of pioneering,
which made it far more interesting. Then a
trip to Cuba and Jamaica with Eliza Cox,
one to Alaska as far north as Circle, above
the Arctic Circle, with fourteen days on a
small wood burning boat on the Yukon, and
my last trip in 1938 to Battle Harbor, Lab-
rador, with Helen Muzzey. And I can

assure you she is an Ai travelling compan-
ion. We are planning and hoping to have
one more trip before we need wheel chairs.

If any of you are ever in my neighborhood
do come and see me. You will have a warm
welcome from all but my Silver Persian.
She is very sweet and so shy.

Affectionately yours,
Gertrude Haldeman Kelsey,
Reunion Chairman

Mendenhall, Pa.

In Loving Memory of: May Churchill,
Mabel Duren, Helen Jackson, Hope Pike,
Edith Pond and Alice Purrington, Mrs. Kel-
sey has given S300. to the Abbot Scholarship

CLASS OF 1895

Front row: Edith Pond, Elizabeth Cox, Caroline Wilbur, Hope Pike.

Second row: Kirty Eddy, Laura Wentworth, Harriet Forsyth, Gertrude Haldeman, Grace

Simonton, Alice Brittan, Gertrude Miller.
Back row: May Churchill, Bessie Adams, Elizabeth Muzzey, Alice Purington, Helen Jackson,

Gertrude Flint, Charlotte Drury, Mabel Duren, Elizabeth Smith.

Fund. Si 00. additional has also been pre-
sented to the Fund by members of the class.

Dear Classmates: I was greatly pleased
to have Gertrude Haldeman Kelsey's letter
asking for one from me in celebration of our
50th Anniversary. It doesn't seem possble
fifty years have passed since I left Abbot. On
the whole life has been wonderful. If it were
not for the war I should have gone to Abbot
for this big event. The friends made there
have meant so much to me through the

Gertrude Miller Jackson,

515 No. McKean St., Butler, Pa.

Dear Classmates: Greetings and Happy
Memories from your Secretary and Treas-
urer "Coxie." I did hold that office, didn't
I? You don't remember? Neither do I for
sure. After leaving Abbot, I studied, trav-
elled, worked and married William N. Hutt

of North Carolina. During Mr. Hutt's life-
time (he died in 1937), we lived in North
Carolina part of the year but spent the sum-
mer months in my home state, New York.
I still continue that routine, summers in
Ellenville, N. Y. and winters in Southern
Pines, which as I write is a bower of beauty
with the purple wisteria and dogwood in
bloom.

Since leaving Abbot I have kept in touch
with my good friends Gertrude Haldeman
Kelsey and Laura Wentworth Richards. One
winter I met Bess Adams in Southern Pines,
N. C. and once I met Bess Muzzey on 5th Ave.
New York. It is remotely possible that I
shall be among those who appear in person
at the reunion. If that does not occur may the
years ahead be joyous ones for you.

Anne Elizabeth Cox Hutt
7 Yankee Place, Ellenville, N.

Dear 1895 Classmates: I wonder if you
are feeling as young as I, and as astonished to
find that its really fifty years since we grad-
uated and said good-bye to each other.

My travels began in 1900 when I had a
delightful European trip with the parents of
Charlotte Draper, an Abbot friend, Dr.
Draper led a party of seven of us young people
through seven countries that summer, each
one of them now so sadly changed. While in
Brussells I saw Kirk Eddy's name above
mine in a lace shop and tried to trace her
without success.

A few quiet years at home were punc-
tuated by fascinating experiences in the
Kentucky mountains. One summer I actually
worked there riding horse-back to the little
cabins, running a Sunday School, and helping,
with a sewing group. That was taking the
place of a real missionary. Later as a Board
member, I visited the Mission several times.

After my Father's death my Mother and I
went to sunny California to be with my sister,
sent home from India on leave. After a year,
she recovered and her Danish fiance arriving,
we all four travelled to New Brunswick where
she was married and left to return to the
Mission field.

After my Mother's death I took a trip
around the world on one of those famed
Dollar Liners. I stayed eight months in
India with my sister and her growing family,
also I had glimpses of Japan and China
where I visited friends.

In 1938, just before war broke out, my
brother and I went to Denmark where my
sister's family are now living, sad to say.

During three long stays in California I saw
much of Mabel Bosher Scudder, '94. It was a
real privilege.

For the past ten years I have been living
in New York where one can find endless
ways to occupy time and strength. With all
its faults I'm strong for life in this metropolis!

I'm looking forward eagerly to hear what
other 1 895 friends have been doing.

Sincerely,
Charlotte K. Drury,
304 West 75th St., N.Y.C. 23

Dear Abbot and Class of 1895: Writing
is difficult for I fear I do not know what or
how much to say. To realize that it is fifty
years since our graduation is well nigh im-
possible.

It has been a busy and happy life but

nothing out of the usual. My husband has
been gone more than eight years but I have
my two daughters who are a great joy and
comfort. Lucy Shaw Schultz Abbot '24, and
Wellesley '28, lives in Flint. She has a
daughter nine, and son six, She leads a very
full life with Junior League, Nursing service,
and many civic affairs added to the regular
duties. Elizabeth Shaw Carter lives with me,
and is very active in Red Cross work. My
war work consists chiefly of knitting, there
being always an army or navy sweater on the
needles. It would be fine if our class could
get together but present conditions make
that an impossibility.

My best wishes go to all and everyone.
Kirty Eddy Shaw,
1903 Center Ave., Bay City, Mich.

Dear Girls of 1895: It is hard to realize
that fifty years have passed since we grad-
uated from Abbot but I suppose it must be
true.

I haven't anything interesting to tell about
myself. My husband died ten years ago,
and one of my daughters is married and lives
in Alabama. Frances is at home with me,
and both girls are very busy with war work.
I can't do anything active and my war work
has been knitting socks. We live here in
Maiden through the winter and about the
first of May we pack ourselves, our two dogs
and two cats in the car and go to our sum-
mer home in New Castle, N. H. to stay until
it gets really cold in the Fall. It's very inter-
esting there. The Portsmouth Navy Yard is
very near, and the boats go very close to our
shore. We have the Army there too, and
during the first year of the war it was really
quite exciting at times. The war seemed
much nearer there than it does here.

We have had a vegetable garden for the
last two years and did a lot of canning, and
expect to continue while the war lasts. I shall
enjoy reading your letters in the Bulletin.
It is really the only kind of a reunion I could
enjoy as I couldn't come up to Abbot.

Affectionately,
Gertrude Flint Grier
141 Summer St., Maiden, Mass.

Dear Classmates: I greet you each, as
you vividly come before me, looking just
as you did in '95! The years between have
been busy ones for me, many, as you know,
spent in the Library at Lexington at most

congenial work. I can't tell you how often
my grateful thoughts have gone back to our
English class, as I have passed among the
library shelves, handling the familiar books
that were made to live for us, by Miss Ingall's
inspiring teaching. Our Art course too, I
have enjoyed over the years, especially on a
trip Abroad.

I resigned from the Library in 1941, after
a serious case of pneumonia made me
realize it was time to quit, and have some
fun, while I was still young! I have been
enjoying my leisure to the full, with many
interests, and a large family circle. I spent
two winters in Florida with my niece and
namesake, another winter in Texas, and
frequently visit my brother in New York. A
quaint cottage at Annisquam on Cape Ann,
is the family's favorite summer hang-out and
I come and go there. The last few summers
I have been Hostess at our historic Buckman
Tavern, calling this my war work.

We welcome hundreds of service men and
women, and the work is most interesting. I
only wish I might tell you about it.

I expect to be at Abbot for the Commence-
ment festivities and shall look for some of you
to help me celebrate our anniversary, and
revive our happy memories.

Lovingly yours,
Helen Elizabeth Muzzey,
14 Glen Road,
Lexington 73, Mass.

Dear Ninety-fivers: After all fifty years
is a very short time, looking backwards. It is
only when we think of friends who were here
yesterday, but gone today, that we realize
how time has slipped by. Like all the rest
I've had glad and sad days. But the glad ones
are easier to remember.

Since my marriage in '96 I've lived in
Rhode Island, Pawtucket, to be exact. So,
though Rhode Island is now home, and I
would not change it; New Hampshire will
always have its sentimental value.

Until World War 1, life seemed fairly
stable. For me that was a busy time; with
canning centers, where without the aid of
pressure cookers, we canned innumerable
quarts of vegetables, Rhode Island stressed
infant care. At that time Dr. Richards was
interested in Public Health work, and was
for years after, State Commissioner of
Health. So perhaps it was natural that
Pawtucket should be my responsibility, with

its innumerable baby clinics, their primary
objective that of reducing infant mortality.

The 1 91 8 Flu epidemic gave us my
brother's three children to supplement our
two. My hobbies are old fashioned pa-
triotism, antiques and genealogy, the latter
has taught me the art of typing, home style.

Dr. Richards passed away in 1939. My
daughter Olive and I live together. She is a
treasure. Since her graduation from Pem-
broke College, she has been at Brown in
various capacities. She is now the Chief
Registration Counselor for the students. At
present most of her work deals with the
Naval R.O.T.C. Unit, and V-12 stationed
there. My son, Byron Jr., is in business in
Pawtucket. He married a Pawtucket girl,
who has become a dear daughter. They have
three children. Needless to say, I am very
proud of them all. Ross, seventeen is at
Tabor Academy. He is my sailor grandson,
and is well known at Hyannis and on the
rest of the Cape, for his ability to sail off with
first prizes in both junior and senior boats.
In last summer's hurricane their home was
moved about a quarter of a mile inland,
where it rests crazily in a peat bog, and the
land from which it was carried is non-ex-
is tant. Thirteen-year-old Dudley devotes his
spare time to figure skating; and is now
Eastern States Junior Champion. Susan, at
nine, is just Sue and sweet.

Though I've not returned many times to
Abbot, it has not been forgotten. To all of us,
Abbot stands for more than we sometimes
realize. It has implanted in all of us those
things which have made us richer mentally
and spiritually. Some we realize, more we
don't. Art appreciation, under Miss Chad-
bourne, is something which has meant much
to me, as I have travelled in tne old and new
world.

And still the good work goes on. Abbot
today has its values for present day girls;
they may be different, but are just as real,
and their influence as far reaching.

Hoping to see you all in May,

Laura Wentworth Richards,
88 Cottage St.,
Pawtucket, R. I.

Agnes Brown, a special student that year,
has for many years, been town treasurer of
Rye, N. H., besides many interests in town
and church affairs. She plans to attend the
class reunion.

1896

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Henry V.
Conant (Ruth Loring), 914 High St., Ded-
ham.

Carolyn Mathews Mohn says, "My Rev-
erend husband and I had the pleasure of
having a reunion here (Paterson, N. J.) in
February with Helen Muzzey and Winifred
Brownell Freeman. Youth hasn't deserted
them and they recounted many reminders
of exciting Abbot days. Abbot can still count
on us."

Abbie Rockwell Young writes, "I have not
been well the past nine years. Mr. Young
and I have been spending six months each year
in Florida for sixteen years. Thirteen years
in Fort Myers, and last winter in St. Peters-
burg, as the military had taken over much
of the town of Fort Myers. This winter we
remained at home on Cape Cod, but hope
to go to Florida next October."

1897

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Alexander
Bunce (Gertrude Ware), R.F.D. 1, Rock-
ville, Conn.

Atala Lee Anthony Worrell has a son in the
Navy, and a grandson in the Army. She has
three sons, and seven grandchildren.

Edith Morton Yoder is planning well!
"Fifty-year reunions sound terribly antique
but do not necessarily mean that we are all
carrying canes or have white hair! Let the
Class of 1897 do all in its power to be present
in two years and begin now to plan for the
event. It means a lot of work for our secre-
tary but we'll begin by telling her that two
of the class will hope to be there. Emily
Willett Rowlands and myself!"

!898

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Robert W.
Dunbar (Selina Cook), 3 Elk St., Apt. 7,
Albany, N. Y.

Edith Tyer McFayden says, "My daughter
Dr. Mary McFayden Bishop with her ten
months old daughter Marion Holly, is with
us for the duration, while her husband Dr.
M. D. Bishop is overseas. Mary is busy in
chest clinics at the County Hospital.

Amy Stork Kydd's son Pfc. John Kydd Jr.,
is with the 182 nd Military Police somewhere
in France. ),K; •

1899

Catherine Sandford is knitting afghans for
Veterans Hospitals.

1900
Forty-fifth Reunion

Dear "Girls" of 1900: A cordial wel-
come awaits you here on May 19th. Do
come and bring the latest news of yourselves
and your families.

Mary Bancroft, Reunion Chairman
Main St., Andover, Mass.

Alice Boutwell Pease sends interesting news
of her family. "We have five grandchildren
now, four boys and one girl. Brad, our oldest
boy is a Major in the Army and is with the
1 1 6th Evacuation Hospital with the 7th
Army under General Patch. His wife and
two boys are down here near us for a few
months. Our daughter Barbara lives in
Tacoma, Wash, and she has two boys. John,
our second boy is not married, is a Naval
Flight Surgeon on an air plane carrier in the
Pacific. Ruth, our youngest daughter is
married and has the only daughter. Her
husband is an engineer in the Army and is
stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington. We
have a boat and go sailing whenever there is
a good breeze. Good luck to reunion, sorry
I can't be there."

Mildred Guild Marshall writes, "My
daughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs.
Dean Dieter are restoring an old house they
bought in New Hampshire. My husband
devotes most of his time to his art. He
paints in water-colors and selects most of his
subjects in Vermont and N. H. I collect
book-plates and rare books. I have several
poems published, and hope someday to pub-
lish a book of my poems."

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Arthur P.
Spear (Grace Chapman), 156 Winchester
St., Brookline.

1901

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Helen Hale,
86 Knox St., Lawrence, Mass.

Ethel Brooks Scott has a sailor son in the
Pacific, and a soldier son in Germany, both
well when last heard from in February.
"Old folks just keep pegging away."

Harriet Lee writes that Tryon, S. C. is
lovely now. She has relatives nearby.

1902

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Hezekiah
Poore (Mildred Mooers), 37 Ames St., Law-
rence, Mass.

Brownell Gage, husband of Delight Hall,
died on February 3, at Bolton, Conn.

1904

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. William O.
Pettit (Elizabeth Winsor), 186 Livingston
Ave., New Brunswick, N.J.

Helen Childs Baldwin writes of her family,
"I have three children, one is married, one a
teacher in Baltimore, and my son rejected
for service, is doing war work here at home.
I have two adorable grandchildren, a boy
of three and a half and girl of two and a half;
they live with their mother up over me, while
their father is in service. I'm busy and well."

Julia Wallace Gage's son Lt. Wallace M.
Gage who has been hospitalized for the past
six months, is now released and instructing
at the New York State Maritime Academy,
Fort Schuyler, N. Y. Lt. Gage previously
served three years in the Merchant Marine
in the Atlantic, and year and a half in the
Navy in the Pacific.

Julia Warren Pomeroy says, "Of my six
children, five are married. My youngest
Robert, is in his first year at West Point. Lt.
William Pomeroy is a Pilot in the Air Trans-
port Command, one daughter is in Signal
Corps at Washington, D. C'The five older
children graduated from the following
colleges. Elizabeth, Mt. Holyoke; Marion,
Syracuse, Library; Sarah, Syracuse Bus-
iness; Theodore Jr. and William, M.I.T. and
B. U.

1905

Fortieth Reunion

We are about to have a Fortieth Reunion!
How I wish I could be at Abbot to see those
of you who can come back. We shall all, I
know, be thinking of the classmates who are
no longer here. And to many of us, I know,
the war must have brought grief, and the
long strain of waiting. I myself, am most
fortunate, since our elder son is still an Army
medical student and can be with his lovely
wife. My husband and I are glad to be teach-
ing in the school to which Charles went, and
to be living near to my eighty-five year old
but lively father. I think that all of us, as we
grow older, live more and more in the great
hopes of our time; most of all in that greatest
hope of victory and "a just and lasting
peace."

Because I wanted to bring back to you
some echoes of our far off school days, I have
been reading this vacation the faded pages

of my Abbot letters. Here are the glimpses of
the Abbot of 1905, as recorded by the plump,
serious school girl, that was I. They begin
of course, with the stately, silver-haired
rustling figure of Miss Means, scornfully
pronouncing "gosh" and "d-a-r-n," as she
berated us in Hall Exercises for our bad
language! Once, when we had dared to
complain about — you've guessed it — the
food, she declared "That good manners
were as difficult to inculcate as good taste."
But, I added, The lunches did improve!
Which of us has not approached her "Con-
fessional" with quaking knees? Yet each of
us, sometime discovered beneath that dread
demeanor, her keen understanding of us
and her gracious sympathy. And how she
warmed to the romance that visited our
faculty with the engagements of Miss Slocum
and Miss Converse !

Space fails me to record my, mostly fond
memories of the other teachers. Here are two
glimpses. "There's the bell for silent time, I
must learn my Bible lesson about the de-
struction of Israel. Miss Howey has it."
'Then we encountered Miss Knowles who
reproved us for walking with arms locked,
which we should never think of doing if we
weren't so strenuously forbidden to." And
this incredible picture, "We are obliged to
play hockey in skirts six inches from the
ground, so I shall have to shorten (sic!) my
old one."

And so, to Commencement, that drizzling
June day when, draped in waterproofs and
clutching our fluffy white skirts, we planted
our class tree and ivy in the rain, and rode to
church singing our class songs.

So, as the Phillipians shouted under our
windows after a football victory, "Rah, Rah,
Emilee! Rah, Rah, Fern Sems."

Frances Cutler Knickerbocker,

Reunion Chairman
The Loomis School Windsor, Conn.

Kathryn Ahern sends Greetings and Best
Wishes for happy years ahead. She writes,
"After graduating from Radcliffe, I started
teaching in the Lawrence High School and
have been there ever since. For many years
I have taught Junior and Senior Bookkeep-
ing. Hardly think I can make reunion."

Fannie Erving Arundale says, ' ' I plan now
to come to Andover on May 19, for the 40th
reunion of 1905. I was the only one of the

class there for the 30th. Hope others can
make it this time. I have four grandchildren.
Each of my sons having a boy and a girl.
Joanne and Robert, and Charles and Janet.

Alice Fuller Davenport and Fanny Hazen
Ames regret they cannot attend reunion.

Elsie Jeffers Hobbs writes, "I am some-
what of an invalid with high blood pressure,
so I do not do all I'd like to do. I do not
expect to be back for reunion. Last June my
husband retired from teaching in the Boys
Latin School, Boston, so we picked up our
posessions and came back to a little village,
Kittery, Maine, that is full of war workers
"on" the Navy Yard. I manage a simplified
house keeping, a college club in Portsmouth,
and have a church connection there."

Ruth Pringle writes from Portland,
Oregon, "I have not been able to attend any
reunion since I left the east so many years
ago. However I am still a loyal Abbot girl
and read the Bulletin straight through. Tell
the girls I am still teaching English in one of
Portland's eight high schools. I am now
alone in the world, but have a little house of
my own and many kind friends. During
the war I do Nurse's Aid work for five hours
on Saturdays, and have just been asked by
the Red Cross to go overseas! They failed to
look up my age!"

From Clara Searle Painter comes her news,
"Still living in Minneapolis. Our three girls
are east. Charlotte is a sophomore at Mt.
Holyoke, Anne is an ensign in the Navy,
stationed in Washington, Mary is doing
economic research for the Board of Gover-
nors of the Federal Reserve Bank, also in
Washington. My term as Vice-president for
the Northwest Central Region of American
Association of University Women ends this
spring. Go east for my last meeting this
month. Have seen Ruth Mason Dunlop in
Washington.

Frances Tyer Crawford writes, "The up-
to-datest Crawford news is: I am Associate
Director of the Princeton University Person-
nel Index which was set up in '42 for the
purpose of steering Princeton alumni into
the appropriate war appointments, both
civilian and military. Now it turns in the
opposite direction, that of steering them into
jobs on their discharge from the services. My
son, Lyndon, Naval Architect-Newport
News Ship Yard, has a son, Douglas Gordon
two years old. Bruce is 1st. Lt. Army Air
Forces-Navigator, stationed in Italy.

1906

Rena Porter Hasting 's oldest son, Hudson
Hastings Jr., was married on October 30,
1944, to Betty J. Steigenvalt.

Persis Mackintire Carr's oldest son, Lt.
Winthrop Carr, will be in Annapolis for a
year taking a post graduate course in Ap-
plied Communications. Av. Cad. Robert was
killed in an airplane crash in Fla. April 9.

Maud Sprague spent a short time in Ham-
ilton, Ontario, this winter, and on the way
home visited Lulu McDuffie and her sister
in their "charming bungalow" in Amster-
dam, N. Y.

1907

Gladys Dudley Stephan has two grandsons,
Charles 3rd, and Dudley Stephan, sons of
her oldest daughter, Anne Stephan Kauf-
master, of Seabord, Del.

Alice Webster Brush's daughter Natalie is a
sophomore at Pembroke College, where she
is majoring in Art.

1908

Gertrude Caunt Barnes' \ 'husband Major
Barnes, Army Air Corps, has been in Eng-
land for fifteen months as Executive Officer
for the 385th Fighter Squadron.

Winifred Ogden Lindley reports her fam-
ily's activities. J. M. Lindley Jr. is 2nd Lt.
AAF stationed in Kansas, a Maintenance
Engineer. Nelson O. Lindley, 2nd Lt. MAC
is Administrative Officer at 168 General
Hospital, France. Winifred, Radcliffe '43,
was at Filene's in Boston, now finishing one
year course at Katharine Gibbs, Boston.

1909

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Gilbert L.
Canterbury (Beulah McCarthy), 18th St.,
N.W. Canton 3, Ohio.

Mary Bourne Boutell recently had lunch
with Lloyd Pierce Smith '39, and young
Cynthia a year and a half old. "Lloyd mar-
ried my husband's nephew, Lt. Malcolm
Smith a navigator on a transport plane,
stationed at Patuxet, Md. We have had
quite a family this winter and I haven't
done much outside work. My father and
mother are here from Maine as usual, and
my husband's mother is with us. Our
daughter Suzette Hopkins is at home, and
her husband is in France. She has an inter-
esting job with U.N.R.R.A. in the section
that trains workers for overseas."

Marjorie Soule Byers' daughter Patricia

graduates from high school in Denver, Col.
in June, and hopes to enter either Stanford
University, or Pomona College in the fall.

Louise Norpell Meek's third daughter Emily
Bradley, was married on December 7, 1944,
to Walter B. Kleiner.

Mary Stuart Kinder 's husband, Jean, is
head of the War Man Power Commission in
Nebraska. Mary is president of the Y.W.C.A.
in Lincoln.

Send that new address before September!

Frances Wright Kimball spent last winter
living with her youngest daughter Tappy,
in Mexico City, where she renewed her Abbot
friendship with Paula Jimeno Cabrera.
She also travelled through Guatemala.

1910
Thirty-fifth Reunion

Dear 1910'ERs: Do you realize that at this
coming Commencement we are due for our
35th Reunion? Thirty-five years is a long
time and Abbot has had many changes and
improvements. There will be many new and
interesting things for us to see, and many old
friends to meet. Let's all try to be there. I
assure you it will be well worth the effort
to come. Emily Sihby MoRGAN?

Reunion Chairman
55 High Ridge Road,
West Hartford, Conn.

Ruth Murray Moore says, "After living in
the city of Brockton for thirty years, we have
gone rural and live on a corner in West
Bridgewater, with 15 acres, have 50 hens
and plan on two pigs, and a large V garden.
Are we helping the war effort?' '

Class Fund Chairman: Mrs. Myron G.
Darby (Ethel Reigeluth) ,110 Tanglewylde
Ave., Bronxville, N. Y.

1911

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Douglas Don-
ald (Edith Johnson), 8 Carisbrooke St.,
Andover.

Charles C. Copeland, father of Margaret;
Helen (Mrs. James A. Creighton), and
Charlotte (Mrs. William D. B. Gray) 191 9,
died on March 7.

Mary Hall Lewis' daughter Jane Lewis
Long with her granddaughter Mary Jane
Long, born May 21, 1944, are living with
her while her son-in-law, 2nd Lt. James S.
Long USAF is in the South Pacific area.

Dora Heys Pym's daughter Constance was
married September 16, 1944 to Maurice
Weiss, in Hamilton, Mr. Weiss is in the
Production Dept. of General Electric,
Lynn.

Pvt. Henry Dresser, USMC, a Radar
Operator, son of Corinne Willard Dresser,
and grandson of Lizzie Gerrish Willard 1880,
was killed in action November 22, 1944. His
Lt. wrote, "He left only friends because he
knew no bitterness." An older son, Willard,
is now overseas.

1912

Helen Bowman Janney still lives in Mun-
cie, Ind., where her husband is engaged in
the practice of civil engineering. Her eldest
child Helen, is married and living in Berea,
Ohio. Catherine is a junior at Ball State
Teachers's College. William is in training
for naval aviation: Ben is a senior in high
school. Besides being an excellent cellist, Ben
is a commercial announcer over the local
radio station and leads the local R.O.T.C.
unit. He enters service in June. "Bow" is
still active in musical and literary club and
church work.

Dorothy Dole O'Brien's son Frank Jr., is
in the Air Corps.

1913

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Margaret
Wilkins, 279 N. Euclid Ave., Pasadena, Cal.

Enid Baush Patterson is in the Red Cross
Arts and Skills Corps, teaching Leather-
craft to bed patients at Cushing Hospital,
Framingham two days a week, and also
doing staff assistance work at Red Cross. Her
daughter Jean is a medical technologist
at the N. E. Deaconess Hospital, Boston, and
son Ensign Roger Patterson is a naval aviator
in the Pacific. Ann is a purchasing expeditor
for Submarine Signal Co.

Mary Erving Lindsay reports on her fam-
ily: Jack is Capt. in the Marine Corps,
aboard the giant carrier Essex in the Pacific
battle zones with Vice- Admiral Mitscher's
Task Force 58, in the Fifth Fleet. Walker
T/Sgt. in 8th Air Force writes most cheer-
fully from P.O.W. camp near Vienna where
he has been interned since November 5,
1943. Caryl Norma is at Fort Devens as a
senior cadet nurse having completed her
training at the Salem Hospital.

Hertha Fletcher Field's husband is Sales
Manager with the W.A.B.C. Columbia
Broadcasting Systems in New York. Her son

l 9

John Field 3rd, is a photographer with the
C.B.'s in the Navy.

Edna Francis Levitt's only son Sgt. Charles
W. Levitt of the 87th Mt. Inf. Reg. died of
wounds received in action in Italy on Feb-
ruary 2 1 st. He had served in the Aleutian
Islands also.

Address unknown: Charlotte Amsden
Flint.

1914

Helen Burk Jones' daughter Susan is
attending the Moravian Seminary in Beth-
lehem, Pa., and son Meredith is in the U.S.
Navy Hospital Corps.

Frances Dowd Chittenden has a daughter
at Smith, a son in high school, and a younger
boy in the fifth grade.

Katharine Selden McDuffie besides doing a
notable job as head of the Red Cross Can-
teen in Andover has two sons, Robert and
Frederic in France, a third one "about to
join something," and daughter Sally at
Abbot.

Hildegarde Gutterson Smith is in California
this winter with Edith.

Ella Stohn Getchell's daughter Hazel
Marie was married on January 27 to Norman
Bernard Euwold, now living in Redwood
City, Cal. Douglas Jr. is Lt. and 1st Naviga-
tor flying a C 54 out of Honolulu.

1915

Thirtieth Reunion

1 91 5 has always flocked back to Reunion,
and let us hope our 30th will be no exception
and that despite all, for a brief interlude we
may once more be "young and gay."
Marion M. Brooks,
Reunion Chairman

134 Charles St.
Boston 14, Mass.

Elizabeth Allen Belknap writes, "With
Allen twenty, a radio technician in the sub-
marine service in the Pacific, and Dan
eighteen in the Navy V- 1 2 at Cornell, we are
very glad that we have Martha eight.' '

Marion Barnard Cole's son Donald who
graduated from Phillips and Harvard is an
Ensign serving in the Pacific in Amphibious
landings. He was at Guam, Leyte and Luzon.

Catherine Leach says there is "never a
dull moment" in her job in the Press Bureau
at Pinehurst, N. C. She supervizes inter-
views and photography of notables from

every profession, and attends all the social
and sports events.

Jessie Nye Blodgett hopes to attend re-
union. Her daughter Sara has a son. Her son
Frederic receives his degree in medicine and
1 st Lt. Commission at Yale Medical School
in June.

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Eugene
Bernardin (Mary Flynn), 11 Abbot St.,
Andover.

1916

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. James E.
Downs (Laura Cheever) , Andover.

Eleanor Black Draffan's son Spencer,
22 years old, is in the Navy, overseas.
Marian 19, is in Ogontz School, James 15,
in Western Reserve Academy, and Frances
1 1 , is at home.

Myrtle Dean Lewis's son Ensign S. Dean
Lewis, is stationed at the David Taylor
Model Basin, at Carderock, Md.

Grace Merrill Emery's husband Com.
George C. Emery, is Public Works Officer,
and officer in Charge of construction at
Mechanicsburg, Pa.

Helene Sands Brown has a daughter 13,
and a son 16. She says, "My thanks to the
Bulletin for my discovering that my first
piano teacher Miss Ida Cushing '94, was an
Abbot graduate !

Emma Stohn Larrabee's oldest daughter
Marie is in Girl Scout work in Water town.
Ralph is in USNR in the Amphibious service
in an L.S.M. Janet is in high school, and
attends Eugenia Parker's Camp, Blazing
Trail, summers.

Addresses unknown: Vera Allen; Mar-
jorie Freeman Heck.

1917

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Oliver D.
Wescott (Dorothy Small), 84 Main St.,
Nantucket.

Miriam Bacon Chellis' son Manning is in
the Navy V-12 program at Harvard College.
Carolyn graduates from Junior High in
June.

Bernice Bout well Parsons has just one
twelve year old at home. Douglas is a senior at
Tilton Academy, and Phil is in the Army,
expects to enter medical school this summer.
She gives one day a week at Lovell General
Hospital at Fort Devens working in the Arts
and Skills program.

Cornelia Newcomb Lattin's son Frederic
will graduate from U.S.C.G. Academy in

June. Her daughter Harriet Chapell is to
enter Abbot in 1946. She says, "I only hope
my mother, Harriet Chapell Newcomb '76,
will be able to see the child as she develops
in that grand old school."

Address unknown: Harriet Murdoch
Anderson.

1918

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. George J.
Cutler (Velma Rowell), 45 Eliot St., Jamaica
Plain.

Helen Meigs van Dyck writes, "Our son's
prep school experiences are bringing me
many pleasant reminders of my own school
life at Abbot. He's a senior at The Hill
School. My newest venture is the hobby-
business of raising very fine Cocker span-
iels."

Margaret Morris Clausen's son is in the
first year of Medical School at Dartmouth
under the Navy. Her daughter is a senior at
Springside School in Chestnut Hill, Pa.

Lois Lindsay has received a leave of ab-
sence from the public school system of
Amsterdam, N. Y. and has joined the staff
oftheUSO.

Katherine Pinckney Whistler's husband,
Lt. Col. Whistler, is in the A.U.S. at present
attached to the First Service Command
in Boston.

Address unknown: Louise Stillwell
Stewart.

1919

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Grace L.
Boynton (Grace Leyser), 30 Engle St., Ten-
any, N.J.

Kathryn Beck Dow's daughter Constance
is married, and living in Hawaii. Eleanor is
graduating this June from Cambridge
School in Weston.

Grace Kepner Noble is "busy with home
and church activities. We have a Teen age
"Hang-out" in the Commercial building
owned by the church and expect to spend
many hours there. I blush to admit that two
older daughters are at Emma Willard
School, Charlie is instructor in Religion
there, commuting from Syracuse to Troy
each week.' '

Grace Leyser Boynton is working at Camp
Shanks, N. Y. as Nurse's Aide, with wounded
returned soldiers.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Norman D.
Meader (Dorothy Shapleigh) a son, August

i3 ? 1944-
Address unknown : M. Gladys Merrill.

1920
Twenty-fifth Reunion

Reunion Chairman: Mrs. William Kurth

(Isabel Sutherland), No. Main St., Andover.

Julia Abbe Goodwin and her husband are
studying Russian, with the purpose of doing
reconstruction work in Russia after the war.

Hope Allen Bates sends her best wishes for
the success of the reunion, and regrets she
cannot be present.

Betty Babb Foxwell's oldest son Marshall,
is a member of the upper middle class at
Phillips Academy. Her younger son, Richard
hopes to enter as a junior this fall.

Dorothy Fisher Whitaker plans to come to
reunion, says, "It's been a long time since
I've seen anyone. My husband returned on
the last Gripsholm from the Far East, having
been interned in Shanghai for a year. He's
fine now and you can imagine how happy
I am. Our only son, Tom, is with the 5th
Marine Division and has been on Iwo all
during that bloody affair. I'm busy at house-
keeping and Red Cross at the Army hospital
here, in Richmond, Va."

Irene Franklin Foster's oldest son, Phillips,
worked for nearly a year in a bomber plant,
making B 29's. He is now a senior at Georgia
Tech, is house manager of the Phi Gamma
Delta House. Marjorie is a junior at Wheaton
College, and the youngest son, John is a
student at Junior High.

Lillian Grumman writes, "Since January
1943, I have been a defense worker in an
airplane parts plant. It surely has been an
experience which I will never regret, a real
eye-opener. Thank you, Miss Hearsey, for
your fine letter."

Caroline Halliday Wilkinson's oldest son is
overseas with the 9th Army. She goes once
a week as a Dietitian's Aid to the Kennedy
Hospital, in Memphis, Tenn.

Kay Hamblet has taken the Nurses 's Aid
course at the Lawrence General Hospital.

Mildred Linscott Porter's husband starts
soon his 1 5th year as Dean of Amherst Col-
lege. She has two sons, John 17, is at Deer-
field Academy, and Arthur 1 4 years old, is in
high school in Amherst.

Lydia McCreary Persons son, Ensign Sand-
ford Persons, 22 years, is in the Philippines.
Nancy, 19, is taking the assistant Engineer-
ing course at Purdue University, with flying
lessons on the side, and Helen 15, is in
school (at home) in East Aurora, N. Y.

Paula Miller Patrick's husband is a Major
with the SHAEF in Paris, G-5 for a while,
now PRD. Three young fry keep her busy
with life in general.

Helen Polk Barker writes, "If I can ar-
range my work and household I hope to be
able to be on hand for the Commencement
weekend. I am now back full time as Recrea-
tional Director at Butler Hospital, in Provi-
dence. It is my old stamping ground as I was
in the occupational therapy department for
eight years. Between the hospital activities,
my home and demands of my young son of
eight, I find I have little time to worry about
trivialities."

Lucy Pratt Rutherford sends an interesting
account of her activities. "I have three
children, Marjorie 21, who has just grad-
uated from the University of Michigan, and
is now working at the Hospital as a Medical
Social worker. Lucy 20, is a junior at Michi-
gan, and Scott Jr. 1 1 years, who is in the 6th
grade. In order to keep the girls in college,
as Scott wanted to get back into the Navy, I
went to work at Nash-Kelvinator. We make
propellers for the B-24's, B-17, Lancasters,
Mosquito and many others. I am an in-
spector on the ' 'coating line."

My father died last October and I went
east for a week, the only time I have missed
from work. Do remember me to all the girls.
I would so love to hear from them.' '

Helen Thiel Gravengaard has become a
grandmother in the birth of a son to her son,
Cpl. Philip L. Gravengaard, USAAF., on
February 15.

Helen Walker Parsons has a full time ad-
ministrative job at the School for overseas
administration at Harvard. She runs her
home, three children and works for a local
cooperative, in which she is interested. She
expects to attend reunion.

Lee Wicker sham Mills says, "My husband is
the important member of the family as he is
a Commodore U.S.N, and head of Fleet
airships Atlantic. Of course I am happy
to have Georgia Lee in Abbot. Hope to be
at reunion."

Ruth Winn Newhall writes, "Am looking
forward to getting to the reunion this year.
We hope our fourteen year old daughter
Nancy, will be able to enter Abbot this fall.
Besides Nancy, we have an eight year old
daughter Patricia, born on St. Patrick's
Day!"

Bertha Worman Smith writes, "How I wish

I could be at Abbot for our reunion, but
war takes us so far from home. Galvin, Capt.
in the Air Corps, has been at Wright Field
for almost three years, and I have been with
him."

Margaret Worman doubts that she will be
here for reunion, as she is doing home
nursing.

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Beverly R.
Hubbard (Muriel Moxley), 172 Putnam
Ave., Hamden 14, Conn.

Addresses unknown: Jean Lyon Mc-
Connell, Anna R. Hussey.

1921

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. David H.
Bigelow (Marion Kimball), 326 Highland
St., West Newton.

Margaret Ailing Ward writes, "My four
year old daughter "Winkie" as she calls
herself, sets a lively pace. Perhaps she will
go to Abbot some day ! ' '

Helen Norpell Price says, "A family of four
children all the way from twenty to five
years of age keeps me on the jump. I am
bending every effort to come back for my
25th reunion in '46!"

It's time to enter that daughter in Abbot
for 1946!

Dorothy Martin Buracker's husband, Capt.
Buracker returned after fourteen months in
the Pacific. "He was Capt. of the aircraft
carrier Princeton which was sunk in October.
We are now living in Washington and our
two daughters, ten and twelve are busy see-
ing all there is to see."

Ruth Crossman Houg's daughter Eugenia
is a freshman at Pomona College. Her son
Orville is playing the clarinet with his high
school band in a contest at the University
of Southern California, where a state wide
contest is being held.

Harriet Edgell Bruce says, "After living
with us four years our English Christopher
has returned to his own family. We feel like
a very small family with two children."

Florence Hinckley Bishop is doing secre-
tarial work at the American Embassy in
London. Her husband is at their chalet in
Switzerland.

Frances Gasser Stover hopes her daughter
Joan, 14, will soon go to Abbot. Her son is
eleven years old.

Carol Perrin Dunton writes, "Extracur-

ricula activity still along dramatic lines!
Took part in the Naval Training Station
production of 'Brother Rat'; have given the
training for Dramatic Badge to a different
Scout Troop each year for the past four
years; and as President of the Little Theatre,
plan shows for the service men in Newport."

Since September 1941, Helen Roser has
been Director of Nursing Education at the
"Institute of Living" in Hartford, Conn.

Agnes Titcomb Henderson writes, "We
moved to York Harbor last May. We bought
a house built from the most interesting parts
of several old houses. It contains some of the
loveliest old cupboards and panelling. We
call the place "Henderson House," and have
a gift shop in one section. I hope any Abbot
girls who drive through York Harbor will
stop and call. Our daughter is nineteen and
will graduate from Colby College in June."

Mary Williams Cochran's husband re-
turned from China on the Gripsholm in 1942.
At present he is working as assistant to Dr.
Smith-Peterson in Boston. As soon as pos-
sible they and their four children hope to
return to China.

Address unknown: Elizabeth McDou-
gall Chandler.

1922

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. A. Evans
Kephart (Ruth Hill), 23 Lyme Rd., Hanover
N. H.

Olive Howard Vance writes of her family,
"Our eldest son Gale has been overseas for
over a year, and in France six months. The
eldest daughter Carolyn is a junior at Sar-
gent specializing in Physio-Therapy. The
other two are in the ninth and eighth grades.
Bill is very busy running two businesses.
I've donated blood eleven times, and wish I
could do a lot more war work. Elizabeth
Hutchinson Graham '22, writes me about
three times a year. Her family are fine and
growing up rapidly. We hope to meet some-
time in Boston."

Send that new address to the Alumnae Office
before September. Include postal district no.

William J. Rahill husband of Cecilia
Kunkel, died on July 11, 1 944 in Harris-
burg, Pa. Cecilia has a son William J. 3rd,
and two daughters, Geraldine and Mary
Minster.

Married: Margery Moon Pearson to Rob-
ert Lindley Zeigfield, February 9.

Eleanor Rose is "working day and night
helping to take care of jobs of men who are
serving Uncle Sam."

Marian Rugg Caywood writes, "My twelve
year old daughter Abby and I spend part
of each winter visiting my mother and
father at their Delray Beach, Florida, home.
So I keep in fine shape for Red Cross,
Symphony and War Chest Drive, and light
housework which is always with us.' '

Anne Whinery says, "I have a friend here
in Richmond, Va., who is a descendant of
Madame Abbot and whose youngest is
named Sarah Abbot Anderson. My work is
with adoptions in the State Dept. of Public
Welfare."

1923

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Sterling Dow
(Elizabeth Flagg), 36 Holden St., Cam-
bridge.

Elizabeth Flagg Dow's husband has re-
sumed teaching of classics and Ancient
History at Harvard, after a year of war
work in Washington, and four months in
Cairo. Her oldest child twelve and a-half
is at Buckingham School, and the boy,
eleven, is at Browne-Nichols School. She is
her husband's secretary and is on some local
committees.

Eleanor Noyes Roedel writes, "In spite of
the fact I haven't been back to Abbot for
quite a few years I enjoy no end reading each
and every item. Capt. Roedel has been in
the army three years in September, is now
at B.A.G.F. Georgia. Judith who is now
seven goes to a Friends School here in Phila.
We hope to send her to New England to
school so she will know and love New Eng-
land as I do."

Think about Abbot for that daughter!

Dolores Osborne Hall says, "Loved Miss
Hearsey's letter. Jack, my son fourteen, who
is a freshman in the Amesbury High School,
was elected president of his class. He's a good
athlete, and tops in his Mom's estimation."

Natalie Page Neville's children are grow-
ing up fast, the boy is twelve, and two girls
are ten and five.

Mary Catherine Swartwood Sinclaire's son
Bill is a plebe at Culver Military Academy.
Mary Carroll is a junior at Abbot "loving
it,' ' and daughter Helen twelve, is in Junior
High.

Addresses unknown: Elizabeth Max-
well Killion, Estella Throckmorton Swenson,
Raymah Wright Sutherland.

1924

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. A. John
Holden (Polly Bullard), Middlebury, Vt.

Virgil DeWitt Harrington, father of
Elizabeth (Mrs. James Wilson) 1924, and
Jeanne (Mrs. Frederick Farr) 1930, died on
January 16,

Frances Williams MacCorkle has a second
daughter Danna, born July 30, 1943.

Katherine Hart Mitchell writes, "I just
live from one mail to the next waiting for
letters from my husband, Lt. Col. Mitchell,
who is with Maj. Gen. Patton's third Army.
He is the "G-2" of the Sixth Armored Div.
which means he handles all the military in-
telligence for the Div. Having no children to
brag about, I have to brag about him. He
was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for
"meritorious achievement in line of duty."
"He was sent into Brest to demand the sur-
render of the garrison from the German
paratroop Gen. Ramke, but the General said
he would fight to the end. Glad I didn't
know about it at the time."

Addresses unknown: Dorothy D.
Adams; Elizabeth Bragg Macintosh.

1925

Twentieth Reunion

I expect to be in Andover for our 20th
class reunion. I hope everyone who possibly
can will try to come back for Alumnae Day.
We plan to meet at Mrs. Chipman's for
luncheon at 12 o'clock. I'll be looking for
you!

Evelyn McDougall Hay,

Reunion Chairman
Birch Knolls, Cape Cottage, Me.

Eleanor Bodwell Pepion hopes to attend
reunion.

Margaret Daniells Burgess plans to be at
reunion. She and her ten year old daughter
Sheila, are enjoying a vacation in California.

Charlotte Hanna Beveridge writes that
nothing would be nicer than to see Andover
in May, but house, family, live stock and
odds and ends keep her busy at home.

Lt. (jg) Frances Howard O'Brien is enjoy-
ing her work in the U.S. Naval Hospital, at
Astoria, Oregon, very much.

Eunice Huntsman writes, ' ' Still am house-
keeper for my family, with church work,
music, and bowling for outside interests.
Plan to attend reunion."

Katherine Boyce Hepbron has two chil-
dren, a girl "Boyce" 12, who may come to
Abbot, and a son George T. 3rd 16, now at
Blair Academy.

Theodate Johnson hopes to be in Boston
sometime this spring and will try to make
reunion. She sends greetings to all the class-
mates.

Charlotte Kitchin Lyons is working for the
Navy on Civil Service. She cannot come to
reunion.

Betty Lincoln Burr hopes to attend reunion,
"help and gas being possible." She has three
children, Betsey, Virginia and Lee 3rd.

Hildegarde Mittendorff Seidel sends greet-
ings to all the class. Her sister, Herta Mitten-
dorff Fisher is moving to Boston in April,
where her husband Lt. Fred Fisher is sta-
tioned in the Ordnance Div. (Address
please!)

Betsey Righter Farrar writes, "Though I
should love to look forward to nothing more
than May 19, I doubt if I can make it.
However one never knows!"

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. George B.
Beveridge (Charlotte Hanna), Sanfordtown
Rd., Redding, Conn.

Addresses unknown: Phyllis Yates
Shields, Helen Sagendorph Mcintosh, Hild-
red Sperry Raymond.

1926

Sylvea Shapleigh Smith has four children,
Patricia, born September 1933; Stephen,
born March 1937; Olea, born January 1943;
Shapleigh, born May 1944. The Princeton
University Press published a biography
"The Life of Ole Bull," written by her hus-
band, Mortimer B. Smith, a little over a
year ago.

Do you wish reservations for room and meals
at Commencement? Write to Alumnae Office
by next mail.

1927

Margaret Nay Gramkow has two girls,
nine and six. She hopes they will both be
able to come to Abbot!

Lucy Sanborn has been working for the
past year as a psychiatric social worker in

the Mental Hygiene Clinic of Lake County,
Ind.

Helen Connolly McGuire writes, "My
husband, a Lieut, in the Coast Guard Re-
serve is temporarily stationed in Boston, so
we are living in Newburyport again, The
children, Susan eight, Elizabeth six, and
Frank Lewis five, are enjoying their visit
greatly."

Send that change of address before Sept.!
to the Alumnae Office. Include postal
district no.

Dorothy French Gray says, "My four chil-
dren and ten-room house, keep me very
busy in these days of no help. Janet twelve,
is almost ready for Abbot, Douglas Jr. nine,
and Donny five, are both real boys and Ruth
Ellen four, has to be a real torn boy to keep
up with her brothers."

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Edwin M. Getz-
man (Ruth Nason) a daughter Louise, in
May 1944.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Kendrick Bellows
(Sylvia Miller), a third child and second
son, Timothy Parker, March 9.

Caroline Ward Sanford says, "I was at
Draper Homestead only a few months but
do remember many of the girls and enjoy
reading about them in the Bulletin. I have
lived in Westfield eleven years and enjoy my
family, daughter seven and son ten, Church,
Red Cross and friends very much.' '

Addresses unknown: Helen Amesse;
Margaret Creelman Nelson; Alice Stonebraker
McLaughlin.

1928

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Emily Sloper,
36 Russell St., New Britain, Conn.

Margaret Nivison Chase reports a second
son, Robert Nivison Chase, born March 19,
1944. She writes, "My husband Austin, has
been in the Navy since February 1944. He
has nearly completed his studies for radio
technician and I expect will be on the
bounding main very shortly. I find lots to do
in Little Falls with two babies under three,
weekly orchestra and choir rehearsals. I took
up the cello five years ago and scrape away
at Mozart and Beethoven to my heart's
content. "We give three concerts a year.
Best wishes to all '28ers."

After a year and a-half of experience with
the Visiting Nurse Service of New York

Lois Dunn left to become a Research Assis-
tant with the Committee on Public Health
Relations of the New York Academy of
Medicine.

Florence Fitzhugh Phelps's husband is a
Major stationed at the Philadelphia Signal
Depot. She and her two sons, Jim ten, and
Bob seven, are there with him.

Beatrice Lane Mercer writes, "With a large
home and four children to care for with no
steady help I am kept pretty busy at home,
but do work at the local hospital on Saturday
afternoons. We were able to go to New York
for five days rest and fun.' '

Nancy Sherman Craig, says, "California is
certainly a long way from New England. I
fully enjoy my Abbot Bulletin with all
the news of the girls I knew. We have re-
cently moved to a larger house to accommo-
date our larger family, three children, Ted,
twelve; Rodney, seven, and Julie two and
a half years. Julie is named for my sister
Julie Sherman Tibbetts, 1918. My husband
left his position as Comptroller of Mills
College a few years ago and is now General
Manager of the American Brass and Copper
Co., in Oakland."

Addresses unknown: Constance Rund-
lett Clarke; Elizabeth Whitney Binkley; Jean
Frederick Rawlings.

1929

Louise Anthony Castor's husband is no
longer in the A.U.S. Had a medical dis-
charge, and is now back at his old job, the
publishing business.

Katherine Blunt Polsby is still Chairman
of Volunteer Nurse's Aides for the Red
Cross. Dan and Dick, four and six, take the
rest of her time completely.

Alice Butler Wright's husband is now in
training for the infantry at Camp Blanding,
Fla. She is staying in Norwood, N. Y. with
her two sons.

Send that new address to the Alumnae
Office!

Barbara Folk Howe is much interested in
her volunteer job with the Lowell Red Cross,
where she is a visitor in service men's fam-
ilies.

Polly Francis Loesch gives two mornings a
week teaching "Dramatics as Treatment"
in the Richmond Professional Institute, an
extension of William and Mary College. She

writes, "I also teach History and Theory of
Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation
throughout the year. One of my favorite
reference books is "Hospital Libraries" by
E. Kathleen Jones, Abbot 1889. Bob and
Bill aged three have a new respect for a
Mama who isn't under their feet twenty-four
hours a day! My husband is still a Chaplain
with the 9th Air Force, had been recently
assigned to a Field Hospital."

Constance Chamberlin Harris' husband is
serving overseas, and she has returned home
with her sixteen months old daughter for the
duration.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Francis Holland
(Barbara Holland), a second son, F. Graham
Holland, January 28.

Katharine Howell Whittum has a second
child, Jeanne, born September 25, 1944.
Allan is three and a half years old.

Dorothy Field was discovered in Mexico
City selling Borden Milk products. Susan
Ripley '28, who is playing in an orchestra
there wrote of their unexpected meeting.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd R. Yoh
(Harriet Gilmore) a daughter Susan Roger,
November 1 1 , 1 944.

After three years silence Despina Plakias
Messinesi has had direct word from her hus-
band in Athens, Greece. She writes, "He
says they are still alive, the Huns having
lived in our house, then leaving with every-
thing, even the garden pump. Now the
house is occupied by British officers as a mess
hall. It is surprising how material possessions
over there have no interest for me.' '

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Coburn R.
Wheeler (Bettina Rollins) a second child, a
daughter Sydney Anne, February 4.

Millicent Smith Uppvall says, "I devour
all Abbot news, our position in a school,
*Eaglebrook,' keeps us from entering actively
in much outside. Sorry I missed our 15th
reunion."

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Jean Schwen-
ninger (Polly Warden) a son, John Charles
Parker, March 20, in Grenoble, France.

Addresses unknown: Edith D. Smith;
Grace E. Stephens; Emelyn Wright Rim-
bach.

1930

Fifteenth Reunion

Hello, everyone — Yes, this is it, our
Fifteenth coming up, but soon, and by this
time you've made big plans and here's

hoping they all work out. For those of you
who can't be with us the 19th of May, I have
a brilliant thought. If each of you will write
a letter (long and newsy) to be read at
Reunion, I promise in return that you'll
have a chance to read them too. Is it a
bargain? Then sit right down and begin
and send to me at once! Love to you all.

Kathie Fellows Ingraham
Reunion Chairman
31 1 Conestoga Rd.,

Wayne, Pa.

Donna Brace Latham says, "My children
Jay six in June, and Danna Kay who was
one in January keep me tied down, but they
are well worth it! If I can't manage it for
May 19, I'll hope to make it in the fall."

Posy Castle Olivetti hopes to come east for
reunion.

Betty Dean Ballou keeps busy working as a
"Grey Lady" in the Veterans Hospital in
Northampton.

Kathryn Dutton Leidy's husband Lt. Leidy
has been in the Pacific for over a year. She
and Rosanna, aged two and a half "keep"
house together in Boyertown, Pa. "Best
wishes for the best reunion.' '

Jane Goodell headed a clubmobile unit of
thirty girls who landed in France a month
after D day. She is now in New York work-
ing for the Red Cross drive.

Alma Hill plans to attend reunion, and
bring with her Agnes Brown, a special
student of '95.

Grace Hadley is working in Jacksonville,
Arkansas, in charge of recreation for a
housing project near the Arkansas Ordnance
Plant."All the fathers and mothers work
at the plant, on different shifts. We have to
keep an eye on the children especially the
teen-agers, and try to entice the adults out
after eight hours of work under tension.
Best wishes to Abbot and the Class of '30, and
send on more news, it's very welcome."

Christine Hollands Struck regrets that she
cannot come back from Rochester, N. Y.
so early in May. "Will be there in Spirit."

Barbara Lamson Cummings expects to be
present at reunion.

Barbara Lord Mathias as academic dean
and lecturer in History at Western College,
is unable to attend reunion. Her husband
was seriously wounded in France, and has
been brought back to this country for further
hospitalization.

Mary McCaslin Giles has been teaching
school, primary grades since 1933. Her
husband is with the Army Medical Dept.
stationed in New Guinea.

Mary Jane Owsley Warwick is counting on
being in Andover for the whole Commence-
ment weekend.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Lewis
(Elizabeth Perry) a son, Robert Perry,
November 14, 1944.

Edda Renouf Gould's husband is in the
Army Medical Corps, in the Pacific since
last spring. She is busy with two small
children.

Ensign Eleanor Ritchie regrets that she
can't have leave at reunion time.

Eleanor Royce Groff writes, ' ' I manage to
see quite a bit of my ex-roommate Kit
Ingram Rowe, despite the fact that she de-
serted Princeton for Yale. And of course
right here among the faculty we have Pattie
Thompson Heely '19, wife of the head-
master, and Betty shorn Bacon '29. My
better half is Master of history and public
speaking at Lawrenceville School. We have
three children, Sallie 7, Edmund 5 and
William 3 , nuff said ! ' '

Mary Shepard Wiley is coming to reunion
if it is humanly possible. She considers
learning to make bread her greatest accom-
plishment this winter.

Class Fund Chairman: Mrs. Jack R. War-
wick (Mary Jane Owlsey), 26 Ledgewood
Rd., Bronxville, N. Y.

Addresses unknown; Evelyn E. Ham-
ilton. Gay Chamberlain Southwick.

1931

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Francis Hol-
land (Barbara Graham), 218 West Marion
St., South Bend, Ind.

Doris Allen Carroll has two children,
daughter Deane, five, and Edward, one year
old.

Send your reservations for rooms and meals
at Commencement by next mail, to Alumnae
Office.

Ruth Cann Baker reports that Marjorie
Ruth, twelve, is in Junior High, and Susan,
four, is growing fast. She is busy with P.T.A.,
and Red Cross, but says, "My jobs seem to
run to Corresponding Secretary of every
club I join!"

Edith Keller is still stationed at Camp
Blanding, Fla. She was sent to Surgical
Technician's School at Atterbury, Ind., for a
course of study.

Janet Simon Smith's husband is an Ensign
with amphibious forces in the Pacific. She
is at home with her two children, Holiday,
seven, and Bobbie, two and a half.

Marian Stewart Hutt's husband is a 1st Lt.,
serving in Southern France as Public Rela-
tions Officer, has been overseas two years.
Her son Jeremy, was born September 16,
1 941.

Lisette Micoleau Tillinghast has now three
daughters, and one son. Charles in, eight;
Betsy, five; Jane, three; and Anne Shaw,
born February 20. Her husband is doing
legal work for the Bendix Aviation Corp.

Florence Norton is working in a lawyer's
office in Skowhegan, Maine, and her sister
Bertha '33 is keeping house. They are busy
looking after the rents their father had in
town.

Addresses unknown: Virginia Lillard
Collins; Pauline Rogers Moreen; Nanine
Wheeler; Marie Whitehill.

Send that new address to the Alumnae
Office!

1932

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Dorothy Rich-
ardson, Boston Rd., Billerica, Mass.

Ann Adams Wallace's husband Cpl. Jack
Wallace, has been overseas for one and
a half years. She is living with her parents,
and keeps busy in Red Cross, and "becom-
ing a personal friend of the postman.' '

Elizabeth Bigler de Masi writes, "Hi, Class
of '32 ! How about some news from some of
you. I read the Bulletin from cover to
cover, what are all the class doing? I keep
busy with my family of three, Jean 9; Jim-
mie 7; and John 5^. My husband is a plant
Engineer with the Chesepeake & Potomac
Telephone Co. of Washington."

Engaged: Elizabeth Holihan to Lt. John
F. Giblin, USNR.

Married: Cynthia James to Major John
E. Lovelock, March 26, at St. Peter's Church
in London's West End. Major Lovelock is
with the British Army Medical Corps.
Cynthia has been in London since 1941
with the American Hospital and the Office
of Strategic Services.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Stanley D. Mercer
(Elizabeth Ann Palmer), a daughter Bar-
bara Joan, April 3, 1944.

Mary Thompson Sherman finds her seven-
teen months old daughter, Nancy, a great
antidote to the war. Mary has two brothers,
and three brothers-in-law all in the Pacific.

Judy Wilhlmi Dodane's husband is on
submarine duty in the Pacific. She is living
with her parents, and "teaching Social
Studies in a challenging Junior high school
in San Francisco."

Addresses unknown: Dorothy Moore;
Elizabeth Piper Thornton; Phyllis Frederick.

1933

Margaret Black Manz writes, "I'm back
in Mansfield, Ohio, teaching school again.
My husband has been in England since
June, and will be there for quite a while to
come. I've taken an apartment and feel a
bit settled after three years of army camps.
Olive French Sherman has moved here. I'm
to have her oldest boy in school. We're
planning Abbot round-ups and lots of fun."

Lois Chapman Greene was dietitian at a
boy's camp last summer, taking her seven
year old son with her. She hopes to do the
same thing this year.

Peg Chase Johnson's husband, Capt. in the
Marine Corps, went overseas last November.
She has been in Detroit working on the Staff
of the University of Michigan extension
service. Her specific projects are in the field
of Home and Family living. After June 30,
her address will be 1 1 Woodbridge Place,
State Island 2, N. Y.

Jane Burnham Curry reports a daughter
Barbara Burnham born on August 16, 1943.

Helen Rice Wiles has a second daughter
Beverly Joan, born May 11, 1943.

Olive French Sherman has moved to Mans-
field, Ohio, where her husband, Lt. (jg), is
doing Contract Termination work. The
Navy calls it a permanent assignment. Her
three children are Rollie Jr. nine years; Ann,
six; and Leon, one year old.

Alice Hill Turner is back in Larchmont,
N. Y. She has a daughter Karen three, and
Sandra a year old.

Georgiana Smith is working in the public
schools in Detroit in the field of children's
literature, and also is teaching an Extension
Course.

Jean Vernon Black has two children.

Barbara Worth Brown, with her son, has

gone to California to spend several months
with her husband, Lt. Com. in the Naval
Reserve.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Duffey
(Dorothy Wrenn) their third child and sec-
ond son, Robert Wrenn, December 22, 1944.

Address unknown: Marcia Gaylord
Norman.

1934

Elizabeth Flanders Cleveland has two girls,
Helen Hoyt, born December 12, 1939, and
Marian van Buren, born July 12, 1943.
Betty paints pastel portraits and has the
"knack" of catching a likeness. Her husband
has done important work in Washington for
the War Production Board and The Foreign
Economic Administration.

Peggy Estes Ballantine and her son
Charles, is spending some months with her
grandmother, Mrs. L. O. Lee, at 103 Han-
cock St., Auburndale. Her husband is over-
seas. She hopes her father, Prof. Charles
Estes of Istanbul, may be able to come home
this summer.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Richard O. Post
(Jane Forte) a son, Richard Oliver Jr.,
March 9. Mr. Post is on active duty in the
South Pacific.

Born: To Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Wilkins
(Peggy Morrill) a second daughter, Mary
Gayden, February 12. Margaret is two years
old.

Commencement program on page 6.

1935
Tenth Reunion

It is hard to believe we have reached the
age of tenth reunions which looked so
ancient to us in 1935, but here we are! Hope
everyone will make a real effort to come to
reunion so there will be a large group
present.

Barbara Chamberlain MacCready,
Reunion Chairman

421 W. DeSoto St.,

Pensacola, Fla.

Doris Anderson Clark" followed the army"
for two years after her marriage, now her
husband, 1st Lt. Whittredge Clark is in
France, and she is a claims investigator for
the Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. in Law-
rence.

Marjory Brodie is working in the Employ-

merit and Personnel Section, Industrial
Relations Department, of Canadian In-
dustries Limited, Montreal. She is also active
in the Junior League of Montreal.

Barbara Chamberlain MacCready reports
on her career, "After graduating from
Smith in 1 939 and Katharine Gibbs in 1 940,
worked at F. S. Moseley & Co., and later
Harvard Medical School as a secretary. In
October 1942 was married to Lt. Harry L.
MacCready, stationed in Newfoundland.
In December 1 943 he returned from duty in
England and we have been living in Pen-
sacola, Fla., ever since.

Laura Chedel Miller has two sons, three
years, and seven months old. Her husband
is stationed at O'Reilly General Hospital,
Springfield, Mo.

Claire Cregg Derby taught French and
English in the Methuen High School, and
in October 1942, married Joseph F. Derby
Jr. She reports an eight months old daughter
Suzanne. At present her husband is overseas.

Evelyn Chappell Swayze's husband is an
Armed Guard Officer, on active duty in the
Pacific. She has two children, Lynn Chap-
pell, born April 3, 1943, and Joseph C. Jr.,
born August 2, 1944.

Ann Cutler Squier and her husband are
with American Airlines, in Phoenix, Ariz.,
"impatiently awaiting the end of the war so
Bill and I can leave our essential jobs. I
expedite for Goodyear Aircraft. We bought a
ranch in northern Arizona, twenty miles
from Springerville.

Jane Dawes McClennan says, "My hus-
band is now stationed at Warner Robins
airfield, Georgia, where he is a captain
in the Signal Corps. Daughter Joanne, born
September 17, 1944, and I are with him.
Any one down this way?"

Phyllis Harding Morton writes, "After
Connecticut College I spent my summer
vacations in Europe, studied at the Univer-
sity of Perugia in Italy. Returning to the
U.S. when war broke out went to work for
Wm. Filene's Sons Co., where I am now a
buyer. In April 1943 I flew to Reno and
married Lt. W. Heywood Morton. He was
sent overseas, and I returned to Boston. At
the moment I am spending my time, after
work, at the Cushing Hospital, Framingham,
where my husband has been a patient since
last August. He was wounded at Saipan."

Eleanor Johnson Dutoit is living in An-
dover for the duration with her two daugh-

ters, Susan three, and Ellen seven months
old. Her husband is in France with the
134th Evacuation Hospital, serving as a
medical officer.

Patricia Noonan Boyan's husband has just
been released from the Army after seventeen
months service, and they with a five and
half year old son, are moving to Colorado
where his business will take him.

Lucia Nunez Mason writes, ' 'After gradua-
tion from Smith I had a wonderful six weeks
in Europe, then went to Simmons College
where in 1941 I emerged with an M.S.
from the school of Social Work. Then to
New Haven for a job as case worker with the
Family Society. In March 1942 I married
Thomas C. Mason, Yale Law School. He is
now a Capt. in A.U.S., now in Germany in
the 3rd Army. I am in Andover with my
family, enjoying our son, Thomas C. Jr.,
born February 7."

Claire Oppenheim Marum's husband is
overseas in the E.T.O., with a civil affairs
outfit. Her son, Andrew William was born
in June 1943.

Cecile Van Peursem Lane says, "How I
would love to be able to go back to Abbot
for our 10th reunion, but I'm afraid it's out
of the question. But I'd like to send my
greetings to all those who can make it and
perhaps I shall see some of '35 at the N. Y.
Abbot Club luncheon, on April 14.

Born: To Lt. and Mrs. William Dinkel
(Carol Prudden) a son, James Danforth,
February 25.

Ellen Rivinius Hill plans to attend the class
reunion.

Margit Thony is employed as Secretary
to the Departments of History, Sociology and
Anthropology, at Hunter College, New
York City.

Mary Dee Wickenden Scofield has two
daughters, Barbara Ann, born April 5, 1941,
and Sally Dee, born September 2, 1942.

Shirley Smith King says, "My son Stoddon
(Tod for short) is two and a half years old
now and provides most of our amusement.
I enjoy the Bulletin so much but wish
more '35'ers would write in."

1936

Born: To Lt. and Mrs. Elbridge H. Pres-
ton (Miriam Adams) a second daughter,
Susan, February 18. Lt. Preston is in the
Marine Corps attached to the airforce as a
ground officer, is now overseas, and Miriam

is living in Derry Village, N. H. for the dura-
tion.

Address unknown: Patricia Smith
McGee.

1937

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Arthur W.
Tucker (Martha Elizabeth Ransom), 632
Great Plain Rd., Needham, Mass.

Engaged: Patricia Burdine to John Han-
cock Notman.

Cynthia Holbrook Sumner is living at Sea
Island, Ga., while her husband is at the Air
Station at Glynco. He was formerly on duty
for thirteen months in South America.

Send that new address to the Alumnae Office!

Jeannette Partridge is an assistant art
Supervisor in the public school in Bristol,
Conn., while waiting for her fiance to return
from Italy.

Jane Stevenson Wursch's husband is in Eng-
land working in a General Hospital. She
lives in Detroit with her two children, Dick
and Anne. Recently she visited Anne Sawyer
Williams and her two little boys in Glendale,
Ohio.

Born: To Major and Mrs. Howard W.
Read (Martha Sweeney) a daughter,
Carolyn Rutter, February 15.

Addresses unknown: Louise Stevenson
Anderson; Mildred Collens.

1938

Married: Jean Appleby to Levis Wain
Minford 1 1 1 , December 8, 1 944, in New
York City.

Beverly Bridge Moore is living in Salina,
Kansas, while her husband is a navigator on
a B-29. Her daughter was born July 15, 1944.

Elise Duncan is a staff artist in the Bureau
of Human Nutrition and Home Economics,
Department of Agriculture, Washington,
D. C. She does illustrations and covers etc.

Sue Anne Eveleigh McVie and her Capt.
husband have been for eighteen months in
San Francisco. She says, "I have a feeling
our days are numbered, but we've been
luckier than most.' '

Born: To Lt. and Mrs. William R.
Leathers (Anne Flaherty) a son, William
Randolph Jr., February 16.

Word has come from Catherine Flaherty
of the death of her brother Pfc. Edmund M.
Flaherty Jr., killed in action in France,
October 29, 1944.

Born: To Lt. Com. and Mrs. Harry
Helfrich (Diana Greene) a daughter.
Diana's mother, Mrs. William M. Greene,
died on March 16, in Baltimore.

Rosa Fletcher has been a hospital worker
with the Red Cross for almost a year. She
is now in a brand new McGuire General
Hospital in Richmond, Va., doing recrea-
tional work. The hospital specializes in
orthopedic and neuro-surgery.

Capt. Williams, husband of Norma
Forsyth Williams is with the 7th Army in
France. Her father, Lt. Forsyth is in the
South Pacific.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Fred V. Archer
Jr. (Marian Lawson) their third son, Paul
Thorbjorn, February 15.

Betty McBride Chapman writes, "I am still
with Mother here in Savannah while my
husband Lt. Col. Jack Chapman is overseas.
He has been across for two years, has been
all over North Africa, Italy, Corsica and
France. At present he is on Lt. Gen. Dever's
6th Army Group staff in France. He was
recently awarded the "Legion of Merit"
medal. He is doing some very interesting
work in close cooperation with the French
forces in his group. I keep busy as a supervisor
in the Red Cross surgical dressing rooms,
doing C.D.V.O. work for the Junior League,
and taking the Red Cross Canteen course."

Margaret Plunkett Smith is busy with her
small son Ormonde Jr., called "Kip". She
does nurse's aide, and takes piano lessons on
the side.

Born: To Capt. and Mrs. John A. B. Faggi
(Jeanne Sawyer) a son, John Alexander
Butler Jr., February 24. Capt. Faggi has
returned home from action in Germany.

Born: To Ensign and Mrs. Charles R.
Moxley Jr. (Jane Vogt) a daughter Kather-
ine Elizabeth, January 1 . While her husband
is in Pearl Harbor, Jane is at home in Bing-
hampton, N. Y.

Capt. Madeleine Proctor has left for over-
seas duty with the Air Transport Command.
Her brother Pfc. Edward Proctor is serving
with the 7th Army in Germany.

Muriel Wood graduated from Vassar in
December, and is now doing Nursery School
and Y.W.C.A. work in Pasadena, Cal. She
is planning to start study for her M.A. in
Philosophy, at Harvard in September.

Addresses unknown: Constance Ab-
bott; Nancy For man Hall; Louise Freeman
Clough.

1939

Olive Butler is working as office nurse for
Dr. William Thompson, school physician at
Abbot.

Kay Harris writes of her life in Cam-
bridge, "Cambridge is one of those places
that is unwillingly a crossing-point for a lot
of people. I've been lucky, though four
flights up in a non-elevator apartment I have
seen or heard from Mary Howard, Lucia
Buchanan, Sally Peck and Mary Woodman.
I could never leave out a chance to tell
everyone about that hilarious year Kiki
Skinner Mills and I shared an apartment and
gave a wedding reception and exhaustive
suppers."

Born: To Capt. and Mrs. Oswald Tower
Jr. (Eleanor Daniels), a son, March 14, in
Glendale, Cal.

Virginia Halstead Lightfoot's husband is
now in Germany with the First Army. She
was with him in Colorado Springs for two
months before he left.

Barbara Leland is working in a private
nursery school, and expects to be at the
Ogantz Camp for her ninth year.

The Alumnae Office pleads for that new
address!

Dorothy Heidrich writes, "I would like
very much to have any of our class who
might wander out "Frisco" way during the
war, get in touch with me. I am still sta-
tioned at the Naval Hospital, Shoemaker,
Cal. Unit 3, WAVE Quarters. It's been ages
since I have seen anyone from our class."

Frances Cross has graduated from the
New York Hospital, Cornell University
School of Nursing, and plans to enter the
Navy Nurse Corps soon.

For the past year Ann Oakman has been
executive secretary for Moss Hart in New
York, and recently has persuaded Sue Long
Kremer to be her assistant! She says, "don't
mind taking trips with "Dear Ruth" either,
such as flying to Norfolk in a Navy bomber.' '

1940
Fifth Reunion

We've had a marvelous response so far for
Fifth Reunion, so be sure and come if you
can. It'll be pretty exciting, and a lot of fun
to see what's happened to everyone and also

what's happened to Abbot. Lots of changes

all around. Please plan on it.

Jeanne Cowles Wilson,
Reunion Chairman
3 Poplar St., Boston, Mass.

Married: Marie Bertram to Capt. Paul B.
Vander Pheynst, November 25, 1944, in
Montclair, N. J. Marie is anticipating her
fifth reunion and wishes "the entire class
might be there."

Carolyn Bittner is teaching the four-year
old group in kindergarten at the Beaver
Country Day School. She expects to attend
reunion.

Barbara Brown McKallagat writes, "I'm
living in N. J. just outside Atlantic City
where my husband is stationed. I doubt
if I can make reunion because I have two
sons, Peter, almost two, and Danny five
months. Needless to say they keep me busy
and tied down."

Sue Chad wick is "definitely planning to be
back for reunion, bar all accidents or mis-
haps. After five years there will certainly
be a lot of news to catch up with."

Frances Chandler hopes to be at reunion,
"if I am still sane as I am to be married the
first part of June."

Phyllis Crocker expects to enter the
WAVES soon, and that will prevent her
from coming to reunion.

Connie Cross graduates in June from
M.I.T. as a Textile Technologist.

Elaine Dalrymple Borowski is at home
again as her husband has gone overseas.

Married: Charlotte Downey to Pfc. Frank
John Boutin, July 1, 1944. He is a senior at
the Stanford University Medical School, and
Charlotte is doing secretarial work in the
Pathology Dept. of the Hospital. They are
living in San Francisco.

Nancy Harrison hopes that she will suc-
ceed in getting time off from her duties at
Children's Hospital, so she can attend
reunion.

Sgt. Marguerite Hall has been with the
same outfit for two years. At present she is at
Headquarters of USMC in Washington
working for the Casualty Division. She
wishes she could have a furlough at reunion
time.

Mary Howard plans to be back for re-
union, has been looking forward to it for
some time.

Marietta Meyer is deep in wedding plans

3 1

for early June in Minnesota, so doubts if she
will be present.

Jean Moir writes, "I'm working at the
Vick Chemical Co. (with Pat Ettele) where
we're both struggling to become secretaries.
I hope you all have a grand time."

Ruth Poore expects to be present for the
reunion.

Anne Schoepflin Ryder says, " I'll come up for
reunion unless Charles gets sent somewhere
else by then. He has been in the Navy since
May. "Chuck" will be two in June, has red
hair, brown eyes and is active. Five years is
an awfully long time, I probably won't know
anyone!"

Ellen Spear fears her final exams at
Wheaton will prevent her getting to Andover.

Nancy Wilson Ainslie is teaching first
grade in Dedham while her husband is in
medical school. She will be at reunion.

Bettie Weaver Hockmeyer's husband has
gone to the Pacific where he is a Navy
Fighter pilot. She is at home and anticipates
reunion.

Marcia Wheeler Falconer is working in her
father's office since her husband went to
England in the 8th Air Force. She hopes to
see a lot of 1 940 at the reunion.

Married: Priscilla Williams to Alan Lloyd
Dorian, March 31, in Brockton. Her class-
mate, Carolyn Bittner was her maid of honor.

Winifred Wiglesworth Ph.M 3/c is at the
U.S. Naval Hospital Bks. 845, Bainbridge.
Sends her "Hello" to everyone.

Danna Whitlock deBragga hopes to follow
her husband to California in May, if not she
may be at reunion.

Jane Wilson Bolter is counting on reunion.

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Carl H. Bolter
(Jane Wilson), Apt. 12, 361 Harvard St.,
Cambridge.

1941

Mary Martin expects to graduate from
Converse College this year.

Following her graduation from Smith in
May, Eleanor Rafton plans to enter the
School for Social Service Administration at
Chicago University. She hopes to prepare
herself for service as a social psychiatric
case worker in government rehabilitation
work.

Edith L. White was awarded an A.B.
degree in Psychology at Brown University's
winter Commencement.

Married: Adeline Waterhouse to Philip

MacKay 3rd, February 24, at Cranford,
N. J. Emily Mills '41, was one of her at-
tendants.

Address unknown : Mary Purcell Wilson.

1942

Married: Suzanne Bates to Lt. (jg) Dar-
win Whitcomb Heath, USNR, at New Lon-
don, Conn., on January 27.

Jane Bishop has been elected president oi
Student Government at Hollins College for
her senior year.

Married: Elizabeth Fowler to Wilbur
Sheridan Warrick, USAF, March 24, in
Norwood. Barbara Hill '42, was maid of
honor, and Thirsa Sands and Marilyn Men-
shik Westaway, all classmates, were brides-
maids.

Bette Gorsuch has been working in the
Cleveland Playhouse since February, getting
the kind of experience she couldn't get in
New York.

Born: To Lt. and Mrs. Edwin R. Decker
(Margaret Goodman) a daughter, Kathryn
Carney, March 22. Lt. Decker is serving in
the Pacific.

Betty Hardy Verdery has moved eight
times since her marriage in July, but expects
now to be in Pensacola, Fla. for eleven
months, while her husband has further in-
struction in piloting. He has changed from
blimps to planes! She anticipates having her
mother and father visit her this summer.

Barbara Hill is studying in Medill School
of Journalism at Northeastern University.
She has been initiated into Kappa Alpha
Theta Fraternity.

Janice Lenane is doing confidential work
for the Army in the Climatic, Research
laboratory, Statistical Dept., in Lawrence.
All clothing for infantry to use in cold or
jungle climates is tested in special cham-
bers.

Married: Jean McKay to Ensign Franklin
Cleveland, USNR, March 10, in Beverly.

Marilyn Menshik Westaway is at home
with her family in New York, as her husband
is in Italy with the 15th Air Force. She says,
"Can't tell you how much I enjoy the
Bulletin."

Engaged: Theodora Manning to Ensign
Maurice Alexander, Supply Corps, USNR.
Theo has transferred from Wheaton to

Barnard College for her junior and senior
years.

Addresses unknown: Helen Estin;
Emma Ann Todd.

1943

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Marion Bur-
dine, Hollins College, Virginia.

Apology. The Editor herewith makes her
humble apology to Marion Burdine, for her
grave error in crediting Pat's engagement,
elsewhere announced, to Marion.

Barbara Ohnick (aff. '43), has sent the
joyful news that her parents were among the
American internees released from Santo
Tomas, in the Philippines. She is a junior
at the University of Washington at Seattle,
Wash.

Anne Pearson graduated from the Hos-
pital Corps School in Bethesda, Md., and
is now working on the wards at The Phil-
adelphia Naval Hospital as a Hospital
Apprentice 1st class. This training preceeds
that of the Pharmacist Mate rating.

1944

First Reunion

Hi everyone! Doesn't seem possible that
our freshman year at college is nearly over.
I hope that all of you are enjoying this year,
but most of all I hope that we'll be together
for our first reunion at Abbot. Let's all try
to be there with the red and white flying

a § am - Molly Hubbard,

Reunion Chairman
Lake Erie College, Painesville, Ohio

The following girls definitely plan to
attend reunion on May 19. Aagot Hinrich-
sen, Ruth Lyons, Alma Mastrangelo, Eva
Persson, Elizabeth Rich and Charlotte Trow.
Nancy Baylor writes of her initiation into
Kappa Kappa Gamma, at the University of
Nebraska. Betty Bertucio starts her training
in Albany Medical School at Russell Sage
College on May 19. She has been elected
president of Kellas House. Ann Cadmus is
pledged to Kappa Kappa Gamma at Mid-
dlebury. Elizabeth Frank plans to transfer
to Simmons College next fall. Nancy Em-
erson will v sit at Abbot Birthday, May 5.

Miss Friskin and Miss Hearsey welcome
Alvah Houston

Virginia Heidenkamp says college is won-
derful.

Alvah Houston, now on the road with the
cast of "One Touch of Venus," gave a de-
lightful impromptu recital at Abbot early
one afternoon recently.

Charlotte Leland plans to train for the
Nurse's Aid Corps this summer. Nancy
Nichols has pledged Kappa Kappa Gamma
at Cornell.

Nancy Palmer (aff. '44), expects to enter
the University of Mexico in June. She has
been attending the Latin American Institute
in New York. She received "a letter from
Margaret Sime '42, who is lecturing and
working on the destruction of rats and mice.' '

Carol Paradise is planning to spend the
summer in Mexico with the "Experiment in
International Living."

Eva Persson has joined the Radio and
Spanish Clubs at Radcliffe.

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Nancy Mc-
Ivor, Cushing House, Smith College,
Northampton, Mass.

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WORD SPOKEN IN DUE SEASON,

HOW GOOD IS IT!

Proverbs

Name Glass

Address Postal District Number

Write news about yourself and others for the October Bulletin. Tear out
and mail before September 15, to the Alumnae Office, Abbot Academy,
Andover, Mass.

Endowment

"What a noble enterprise it would be if some philanthropist or someone
else interested in this century-tested school could or would provide us with a
substantial endowment for the finest teaching staff a school doing our type
of work could have, and with future salaries quite ahead of any competitor."

Conditional Gifts

Abbot receives conditional gifts subject to annuity agreement with the
donors. In this way any part of one's property can be applied to Abbot's
welfare after death, and while living an assured income is received.

Would you like to consult the Treasurer about an Annuity arrangement?

Burton S. Flagg, Treasurer

Form of Bequest

I give to the Trustees of Abbot Academy, incorporated under the laws
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the sum of dollars.

Abbot Araopmg UnUrttn

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Abbot Academy Alumnae Association

Associate Member of American Alumni Council

OFFICERS, 1 944- 1 946

President

Mrs. Rolfe M. Kennedy
(Roberta Kendall)
Douglaston, N. Y.

Vice-presidents

Mrs. Frank C. d'Elseaux

(Virginia Gay)
Winchester, Mass.

Mrs. Douglas Donald
(Edith Johnson)
Andover, Mass.

Mrs. Ernest F. Tillson
(Gwendolyn Bloomfield)
Wellesley Hills, Mass.

Clerk
Mrs. Edwin H. Goodwin
(Susan Hildreth)
Winchester, Mass.

Treasurer
Mrs. James E. Downs
(Laura Cheever)
Andover, Mass.

Social Secretary
Mrs. Reeve Chipman
(Constance Parker)
Andover, Mass.

Executive Secretary
Miss Marion R. McPherson
Andover, Mass.

ALUMNAE TRUSTEES

m 2 - T 94 8 I 945' I 95 1

Miss Margaret Van Voorhis Mrs. Lenert W. Henry

304 Lexington Ave. (Helen Allen)

New York City, New York 246 Glen Rd.

Weston 93, Mass.

ABBOT CLUB PRESIDENTS

Boston

Mrs. Ernest F. Tillson
(Gwendolyn Bloomfield]
Wellesley Hills, Mass.

Chicago

Mrs. J. Allen Lind

(Mary Simpson)
1 239 Asbury Ave.
Winnetka, Illinois

Connecticut

Miss Sara G. Peck
20 Fairview Terrace
Derby, Conn.

Detroit

Mrs. Thomas A. Nalle
(Harriet Balfe)
1 2 1 1 Willow Lane
Birmingham, Michigan

Maine, Eastern

Miss Eleanor Bird
250 Broadway
Rockland, Maine

Maine, Western
Mrs. Harold Robinson
(Harriette Woolverton)
Cape Elizabeth, Maine

New York
Miss Gertrude Holbrook
Larchmont. N. Y.

Ohio, Central
Mrs. Paul Meek
(Louise Norpell)
Worthington, Ohio

Ohio, Cleveland
Mrs. George Worthington
(Madeleine Fiske)
Chesterland, Ohio

Old Colony
Mrs. Richard M. Thompson
(Ruth Niles)
300 Woodlawn St.
Fall River, Mass.

Pittsburgh
Mrs. George H. Jackson
(Gertrude Miller)
515 No. McKean St.
Butler, Pa.

ABBOT ACADEMY BULLETIN

Series 13 OCTOBER, 1945 Issue i

Table of Contents

Frontispiece: Abbot Academy Faculty P a & e

Miss Hearsey's Greeting 3

Faculty Changes 5

The World Is Ours Holly Welles ig^ 8

Honor A's 10

An Open Door 11

Alumnae Relatives in Class of 1945 12

Fall Calendar 14

Our New Alumna Trustee 15

New Alumnae Relatives 15

Class Reunion Photographs 16

Abbot Clubs 19

Gifts to Abbot 19

Alumnae Association .20

In Memoriam 21

Class News 22

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THE EDITORIAL BOARD

JANE B. CARPENTER, 1892, honorary

CONSTANCE PARKER CHIPMAN, 1906, Editor in Chief

marion r. Mcpherson, 191 8

ROBERTA KENDALL KENNEDY, 1929, ex officio

Published four times yearly, October, February, May, and September, by Abbot Acad-
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Miss Hearsey's Greeting

IT is a pleasure to send this word of greeting to the old girls at the beginning
of our first year of peace since September 1939. However gigantic the
problems confronting mankind today, there is at least cessation of death and
destruction, men and women can give themselves to rebuilding, can turn
with eager, perhaps desperate hope, to the creation of a united world.

As one considers the peace to be created one is made increasingly aware
that it cannot be alone the work of any organization or committee however
high sounding its title, however authoritative its decisions. For it is in the
area of human relations, as practiced by millions of people in every country,
that peace is to be achieved. The qualities that lead to success in that realm
must be cultivated and practiced by us all, more consciously and persistently
then ever, and must be taught our children with all the speed and wisdom at
our command.

It is for this reason exciting and also sobering to have anything to do with
education today and it must be even more so to have children of one's own
to bring up ! And neither teachers nor parents, nor any thoughtful individual
can be an "innocent bystander." "It is later than we think" and our daily
effort or lack of effort will have its effect on the world that is in the making.

Abbot, entering upon its 1 1 7th session, is looking forward to a good year.
The removal of the limitations and problems of the war years makes life
pleasanter and restores opportunities that we have had to forego for a long
time, but this is not nearly so significant as the sense of exhilaration that
comes with the removal of fear, and anxiety, and tension. Even in so safe and
comfortable a place as this, young people have not escaped the psychological
pressure of the war.

The morale of the school through these war years has been remarkably
good, however, and we have been forced again and again as we have ob-
served human conduct during the fateful struggle, to the realization that
"man seems to find his soul in conflict." Our task for the coming days and
years is to keep alive that sense of battle and resistance; to find and participate
in what William James many years ago called "the moral equivalent of war."

As I send you your school's greetings for the coming year, it is good to
realize how many hundreds of Abbot graduates are taking an active part in
this struggle. I hope that among the generations now in college, not a few
may consider seriously the vocation of teaching, for the need of good teachers
is appalling. I know that mothers are thinking with constant concern about
creating in their children the attitudes and sense of values that will lead

toward racial and international understanding, and I am confident, also,
that as many of the alumnae as possible, young or old, parents or "spinsters"
are participating in their own communities in some helpful way through the
church, the League of Women Voters, the Woman's Club, or other organ-
izations devoted to the cause of a peaceful, free, united world.

One of the pleasant by products of victory has been the removal of the
restrictions on pleasure driving. Because of this it was possible for many
parents to drive their daughters to school this year and it will also be possible
for more old girls to come back to see us during the year. I look forward with
much pleasure to these visits and especially to the Commencement reunions.
There will be interesting plans and projects about the school to discuss at
that time, I feel sure, and we shall welcome and need the participation of all
the alumnae as we go forward into Abbot's own post-war era.

IMffiirr/:

SUMMER SCENE ON CAMPUS

Faculty Changes

Helen Dunford Robinson

That two teachers who have given twenty-seven
and twenty years, respectively, to Abbot Academy
have had to resign in the same year is a great loss to
the school. In Helen Robinson and Mary Carpenter,
Abbot has had during their years at the school two
loyal and devoted friends. Miss Robinson came to
Abbot in 1918, after nine years at the Newburyport
High School and one at the Mount Hermon School,
and except for a half year's leave of absence in 1936,
she taught Latin with enthusiasm and the highest
standards during the twenty-seven years from then
until April of this year, when a fall resulted in a
seriously fractured hip. In two more years Miss Rob-
inson would have reached the retirement age and it has been a great disap-
pointment to her and to us all that her accident has made it necessary for her
to resign this year.

The girls who had the good fortune to be in her classes need not be
reminded of her unfailing interest in their progress and her joy in their
achievement. The alumnae who return will miss her friendly, eager welcome
and will always be grateful for the appreciation she gave them for honest
work well done. It is good to be able to report that after five months in bed
Miss Robinson is now making encouraging progress and hopes to be able
to walk by the end of October. Her home address is 77 Mt. Pleasant Avenue,
Gloucester, Massachusetts, and she would be delighted to have letters from
any of her old girls.

Miss Carpenter came to Abbot in 1925, after
only three years of teaching elsewhere, and undertook
at a very youthful age her responsibility as head of
the Physical Education Department. As the years
passed she developed unusual ability, not only in her
own field, but also in her social relationships with the
girls. Her success as faculty advisor to the Athletic
Council, and as a Corridor Teacher were marked,
and in turn had great influence for good in the life
of the school.

The keen, but delightfully friendly competition
which expressed itself through the Gargoyle-Griffin
contests, was due largely to her wise training and

guidance, and there are many girls who will remember lessons learned on the

hockey field or basketball field through Miss Carpenter's quiet comments

and suggestions, far more vividly than anything else they learned at Abbot.

The work of a Physical Education Director requires much physical

Mary Carpenter

endurance, however, and Miss Carpenter felt that after twenty-three years,
twenty of them at Abbot, it was time for her to consider some work that
would be less strenuous physically. It was, therefore, with great reluctance
that she presented her resignation and under the circumstances it was as
reluctantly accepted, with full recognition of what it meant to the school.
Miss Carpenter is planning to study this year at Columbia, in New York
City, in the field of Guidance or Counselling. Her home address is 37 Wilkin-
son Street, Putnam, Connecticut.

These two losses this year, not to mention the others of members of the
faculty who have given most generously and loyally of themselves to the
school, press us back to the realization that the life of Abbot is deeply rooted,
and that in the century and more that it has been growing it has been
largely made what it is by such devoted service. The members of the faculty
span various generations of students and each generation has inevitably a
different pattern that makes for it the total faculty group. But there is a
continuity to the picture and to the memories of the alumnae, and while
some well-loved teachers will not be here to welcome them when they return,
there are always others, and new friends are always being made.

We give Miss Robinson our very warmest wishes for many years of happy,
busy leisure, and to Miss Carpenter we would say that we hope her new work
will be most satisfying and successful, — but both she and Miss Robinson must
always consider themselves "Abbot Girls!" For the forty-seven years of faith-
ful and affectionate service which in total Miss Robinson and Miss Carpenter
have given to Abbot there are no words adequate to express our gratitude.

M. C. H.

* *

Miss Carpenter's place as Head of the Physical Education Department
is to be taken by Miss Oril Hunt. Miss Hunt has her B.S. degree from the
University of Arizona and has done graduate work at Syracuse University.
She has taught Physical Education for several years, most recently at the
Johnson High School in North Andover.

Miss Robinson's successor is to be Miss Edith Prescott, of Kensington,
N. H. Miss Prescott is a graduate of Radcliffe College and comes to Abbot
from Hannah More Academy, in Reierstown, Maryland.

The other changes in the faculty are as follows:

Miss Gertrud Rath who was an administrative assistant for eight years
at Abbot has left to take a position as Executive Secretary at the Masters
School, Dobbs Ferry, New York. Her position at Abbot is to be taken by
Mrs. Ruth C. Reeves of Arlington, Virginia. Mrs. Reeves is a graduate of
Hollins College and has had a variety of experience in executive and secre-
tarial work.

Miss Rechnitzer who taught French and German, is to be at Oldfield's
School in Glencoe, Maryland, this year. She is succeeded by Mile. Germaine
Arosa. Mile. Arosa who was born and educated in Paris, has had professional

training as a diseuse, and has more recently prepared to teach French. She
spent this summer at Middlebury College, and the five preceeding ones as a
French tutor at L'Ecole Champlain.

Mile. Trouve has accepted a position in the French Department of New
Jersey College for Women, at New Brunswick, New Jersey, and will have
charge of the French House there. Her work at Abbot is to be taken by
Mme. Jeanne LaRoche Leisner, who has been teaching for several years at
Miss Harris's School in Miami.

The Spanish Classes this year will be taught by Miss Gerda Kaatz who
comes to us from the University of Iowa, where she has recently received
her Ph.D., and where she has had experience in teaching for several years.

Mrs. Beck who had been with us for two years, is taking this year off
for study and rest.

Miss Dorothy Baker, who was a member of our English staff from 1 939-
1940, and again from 1 941 -1944, has been in England for the past year,
teaching in Bath. She is now able to return to Abbot and we hope will remain
with us. Miss Padwick who took Miss Baker's place during the past year is
to be at the Spence School, in New York.

Mrs. Calhoun resigned in April when her husband was returned to the
United States after his release from the internment camp in Manila. Her
place is to be taken by Mrs. Mervin Stevens. Mrs. Stevens has had many
years of successful teaching of Mathematics but had given up teaching after
her marriage. She was persuaded to meet Abbot's need when Mrs. Calhoun
had to leave and will continue her work with us for the coming year.

For Studio Art we have been fortunate to obtain Mr. Abbott Cheever,
a distinguished Andover artist who has been doing war work at M.I.T. for
the last few years. Mr. Cheever will divide his time between Phillips Acad-
emy and Abbot.

Because of illness Miss Wilkinson's return to school this fall has been
delayed. Her classes are taken by Miss Ivor Lou Myrh. Miss Myrh has her
A.B. and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University and has had wide teaching
experience. She had received a grant from the Council of Learned Societies
to do some research this year but was willing to defer this work temporarily
to come to our assistance.

The World Is Ours

Holly R. Welles

President of the Abbot Christian Association ig^-ig^

IT'S a bit staggering to be suddenly told that we own a world! Why, many
of us have never so much as set foot outside our own United States, one
of the biggest and greatest countries that we know of and then to be informed
that something we have never seen, something we can hardly comprehend,
some millions of square miles of rocks, forests, and vast areas are ours, to do
with as we please, it doesn't happen every day. Nevertheless two Sundays
ago, at this very time, Dr. Rubendall made just such a statement. 'The
World is yours," he said. The question we now face is, what are we going to
do with it?

This question of course cannot be answered quite as glibly, quite as
easily as it is asked. We all have our ideals, our theories as to what would
improve the conditions in our world, and there's nothing wrong with ideals
for they give us a goal to strive for. But it isn't the ideals themselves that are
going to answer the question, it's the actions to attain the ideals that are
what are going to count. Of course, just what these actions are going to be is a
personal problem for each of us, so that's not what I want to talk on tonight
but I do want to suggest a few matters for each of us to remember as we begin
to consider the way in which we intend to use this gift.

First of all, let us consider just what is involved every time something
new is added to our possessions when we were younger. This addition often
was a toy, perhaps a doll or a game. As we began to use this game we found
that a way for greater pleasure, even greater freedom in how we might use
our time, had opened to us but we also found that it was we, as the owners
who were expected to take the necessary care of this plaything if our new
found enjoyment was to remain. Thus, unconsciously perhaps, we discovered
that to make the most of each new freedom we would have to take over the
responsibility of using it well, for seeing that its purpose was fulfilled by
keeping it in good shape. It's not very difficult to see what point I'm trying
to make. As we begin to make use of this great new possession of ours we've
got to remember that it isn't all fun and new freedom, but that it is also a
trust and a definite responsibility. We can't sit back and take all the world
is offering us without giving back something definite in return. In past gen-
erations people have greedily snatched all they could and then decided
they couldn't be bothered to make some return to even the score. During
the last war we fought the winning battle so that our form of government,
democracy, might be spread over the world, an act definitely advantageous
to us because it assured our safety and our power. And yet, it seemed like
too much trouble to take the responsibility for maintaining this safety. We
tried the impossible, to have our cake and eat it too, and it proved disastrous.

Talk given at the Abbot Vesper Service on April 22.

What we have to realize is that whenever we take or are given of the world,
whether as a great political leader, or as a housewife, we are being called
on to give something of ourselves in return. And so, the first thing to re-
member as we receive this gift of the world, is that with new opportunity
comes new obligation.

The second point we should keep in mind is a realization of whom this
gift is intended for. "The World is yours," said Dr. Rubendall. Well, there
are two ways of interpreting that "yours," neither of which is entirely right
as it stands alone but both of which together form the whole truth. "Yours"
can be taken to mean that which pertains to one person alone, or it can be
used collectively to refer to a whole group of people. Combining these two
meanings we have, very simply this : The World belongs to each one of us in
our generation in that each one of us should make his life count for something
but not at the expense of someone else's opportunity to do the same. This
cuts down all the beliefs that any nation, creed, or color is superior to any
other. We in the United States live in the richest, most powerful nation in the
world. We have everything we need, just about everything we could possibly
want. We were lucky. We did our growing early and now we are being called
upon to use our wealth to build up the other countries, and to keep building
them up until they too have a high standard of living. It's not going to cost
us very much of our overwhelming luxury, this allowing of the people around
us to achieve their rightful heritage, yet some Americans may try to keep
away some of the small discomforts we will have to put up with by refusing
their help in this necessary step. If we allow ourselves, our country to main-
tain its own majority of power we will also be Hitlers trying to build up a
master race. And so, as our second thought as we receive this gift, let us retain
in memory the full significance of those who are meant to share this gift
with us. We've remembered the gift — we've remembered to whom this gift
is being given.

Thirdly, let us always remember Him from whom this great gift is
coming, the immortal being who created this world and all the goodness
which is in it, who created the world and who created us in his own image
that we might have His world, take advantage of all the fineness that He put
into the world. "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light; And
God saw the light, that it was good." No matter where we are, what we're
doing, whether it be in our happiest moments of living or whether it be in the
throes of dying itself, there is always light in this world and all we have to do
is to realize its presence, to realize we're never alone, that with us always is
one who is a personal being, one who is interested not only in man as a
whole, and also in each and every one of us. We have but to ask and he will
give us the love, friendship, understanding, the courage we lack.

There have been many great and good people in this world, men and
women who have spent their lives, even given their lives that some of the
wrong which has arisen in the centuries of man's existence might be erased.
We have heard of just a few of these people: Paul, Socrates, Joan of Arc,

Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, but there are many more of whom we
have never heard, people who also had shining ideals and also worked for
them, not on such a large scale as some others, perhaps, but nevertheless
contributing what they could to make the world better for future generations.
They too realized their bit of a world was a gift from God, and they tried to
make themselves worthy of the gift by living the cleanest, the most generous,
the most decent kind of lives that they had in their power to build.

Yes, it's our turn now. We are the generation to whom the world is
looking. We have our ideals, and we intend to work for them, to attempt to
bring about a more perfect state of affairs than the world has ever known,
before we, in our turn, must give way to the generations following us. We
will remember that responsibilities as well as freedom accompanies the gift,
and we will remember that the gift belongs to each and every one of our
generation existing today, and most important of all, we will remember that
the gift is from God who is, in himself, the greatest light known to man,
without whom we would be living in total blackness, alone unguided in our
most discouraging and perplexing problems. We will remember that without
Him nothing really worth while has ever been accomplished and never will
be, either in our time or in the time to come. And as we leave this Chapel
tonight let us echo in our hearts the words of Solomon which President
Truman included this week in his speech to Congress: "Give therefore thy
servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern
between good and bad; for who is able to judge this so great a people."

HONOR A's
Front row: Holly Welles, Cynthia Smith. Beatrice Van Cleve. Back row: Shirley Sommer,
Barbara Haserick, Joan Sweeney, Miss Hearsey, Hilary Paterson, Madge Twomey.

An Open Door

An open door is an invitation to go forward! One
hundred and seventeen years ago the founders of Abbot
Academy opened the door for our school and since then
it has been held open by many enlightened friends and
alumnae.

Wisdom, and a vision
broad enough to refuse
limitation, made possible
the growth from one acre
of barren field to the pres-
ent campus; from three
pictures to the John-
Esther Art Gallery; and
from a library that was
easily accommodated in
two bookcases on the

ABBOT

SECOND CENTURY

ALUMNAE FUND

i 945- i 946

April 1 st to October 1st $1610.10
Reunion Gifts (included)

Class of 1900
Class of 1 910
* Class of 1920
Class of 1930
Class of 1935
Class of 1940
Class of 1942

$30.00
37.00
58.00
62.00
25.00
51.00
40.00

*In memory of Catherine Greenough
1920.

The Class of 1895 have made a special
reunion gift of $1090.00 directly to the
school for an Abbot Scholarship Fund.

Chapel platform to the

Means Memorial Library of approximately ten thousand

volumes and magazines.

Unrestricted gifts to the school through the Abbot
Second Century Fund express the continuing vision of
our alumnae today who are holding the door open for
the future Abbot girl.

Josephine Bernardin
daughter of Mary Flynn Bernardin 191 4

Martha Anne Boynton
sister of Mary Margaret Boynton 1942

Elizabeth Dickerman
granddaughter of Elizabeth Street Dickerman

1863

Alumnae Relatives

Class of 1945

Janet Craig
sister of Helen Craig 1942

Suzanne Lei.and
sister of Charlotte Leland 1944

Andrea Lyons

daughter of Ruth Moore Lyons 191 6, sister

of Ruth Lyons 1 944

Jessamine Rugo Patton
daughter of Jessamine Rugg Patton,

1921

Helen Norris

grand-niece of Clara Hood 1875, Nellie

Hood 1875

Anne Marie Persson
sister of Eva Persson 1944

Sally M. Spear
sister of Ellen Spear 1 940

Joan Sweeney
sister of Martha Sweeney Read 1937

Fall Calendar

Tuesday September 18, Opening of School

Saturday September 22, School Picnic: A.C.A. Old Girl-New Girl Party in

evening
Sunday September 23, Vespers: Miss Hearsey
Saturday September 2g, Senior Picnic : Richard DuBois, Magician
Sunday September 30, Vespers: The Reverend A. Graham Baldwin, Minister,

Phillips Academy
Saturday October 6, Corridor Stunts: Abbey, Homestead, and Sherman
Sunday October 7, Vespers: The Reverend George L. Cadigan, Grace Church,

Salem
Saturday October 13, Russell Curry, Dance Recital
Sunday October 14, Vespers: The Reverend Raymond Calkins, D.D. Minister

Emeritus, First Church, Cambridge
Saturday October 20, Corridor Stunts, Draper Hall excluding seniors
Sunday October 21, Vespers: Abbot Christian Association
Saturday October 2 1 /, Corridor Stunts, Seniors and Day Scholars: Hallowe'en

Party
Sunday October 28, Vespers: The Reverend James Gordon Gilkey, D.D.,

Springfield
Sunday November 4, Vespers: The Reverend Allan K. Chalmers, D.D.,

Broadway Tabernacle, New York City
Saturday November 10, Field Day
Sunday November 11, Vespers: The Reverend Theodore P. Ferris, D.D.,

Trinity Church, Boston
Saturday November 17, Lecture by Mrs. Frank Mansfield Taylor on Current

Events
Sunday November 18, Vespers: Dr. Claude M. Fuess, Headmaster Phillips

Academy
Thursday November 22, Thanksgiving Day
Saturday November 24, Piano Recital by Miss Kate Friskin
Sunday November 25, Vespers: The Reverend Vivian T. Pomeroy, D.D.,

Milton
Saturday December 1, Miss Suzanne Silvercruys, Sculptress, Lecture and

Demonstration
Sunday December 2, Vespers: The Reverend Herbert Gesork, Professor of

Religion at Wellesley College and Andover Newton Theological Sem-

inarv
Saturday December 8, A.D.S. Play

Saturday December 15, A.C.A. Party for Andover Children: Christmas Read-
ing, Mrs. Gray
Sunday December 16, Christmas Vespers, Miss Hearsey
Monday December 17, Christmas Dinner and Carol Sing
Tuesday December 18, Christmas Vacation to January 9

Our New Alumna Trustee

A hearty greeting to all you loyal Abbot
alumnae from your newest and youngest
trustee! May we all meet soon, in spirit,
if not in person, to work together for the
school that means so much to so many of
us. Now that the war is over and gas no
longer rationed, why not join your nearest
Abbot Club? Better still, come to Andover
where you will always find a cordial
welcome, and see how far Abbot has
progressed in the last few years and learn
her plans for the future. As your represen-
tative on the Board of Trustees, I "stand
by" for any and all suggestions!

Helen Allen Henry, 1932

New Alumnae Relatives, September, ig^

Dorothy Lee Booth, daughter of Dorothy Taylor Booth, 1923

Carolyn June England, sister of Nancy England Worthen 1939, and sister of
Betty Jean England 1 942

Helen Florence Mastrangelo, sister of Alma 1944

Nancy Newhall, daughter of Ruth Winn Newhall 1920

Mary Annis Rich, granddaughter of Annis Spencer Gilbert 1889; daughter of
Helen Gilbert Rich 1914; sister of Elizabeth G. Rich 1944.

Mackay Selden, cousin of Anne Selden 1941

Barbara Smith, daughter of Frances Skolfield Smith 191 2

Felicia A. Tavares, sister of Julia 1944

Mary L. White, daughter of Charlotte Hudson White 1923

Relatives of Girls in School

Frances M. Brumback, sister of Martha Ellen Brumback 1946

Nancy Ellen Brumback, cousin of Martha Ellen Brumback 1946, cousin of
Frances Marie Brumback, entering in 1 945

Paula Flowers, sister of Ann 1947

Elinor C. Massie, cousin of Virginia L. Finney 1946

Marion H. Morriss, niece of Miss Margaret S. Morriss, Dean of Pembroke
College, and a Trustee of Abbot Academy

Class

1895

Laura Wentworlh Rich-
ards, Helen Elizabeth Muz
zey

1900

Winona Algie, Miss Nellie
Mason, Mary Bancroft,
Grace Chapman Spear,
Edith Valpey

1910

First row: Louise Tuttle
Abbott, Ruth Murray
Moore

Top row: Lillian Johnson
Smith, Dora Heys Pym, |
Ruth Newcomb, Ethel Re-
gehuth Darby, Emily Silsby
Morgan

Reunions

1915

First row: Norma Allen
Haine, Jessie Nye Blodgett,
Marion Brooks, Marian
Winklebeck Lowes

Top row: Mary Flynn
Bernardin, Marian Barnard
Cole, Catherine Leach,
Elizabeth Leach, Eleanor
Bartlett Atwater, Elizabeth
Allen Belknap, Phyllis
Brooks Stevens

1920

First row: Lee Wicker-
sham Mills, Isabel Suther-
land Kurth

Top row: Edna Dixon
Mansur, Ruth Winn New-
hall, Irene Franklin Foster,
Margaret Ackroyd Hunt,
Katherine Hamblet

1925

First row: Barbara Nelson
Twombley, Gertrude Hol-
brook, Elaine Boutwell Von
Weber

Top row: Eunice Hunts-
man, Evelyn McDougall
Hay, Susan Daniell Burgess

1930

First row: Elizabeth Tarr
Morse, Kathie Fellows In-
graham, Jean Harrington
Farr, Betty Quinby Johnson,
Doris Sturtevant Bacon

Top row: Janice Lovell
Jenkins, Mary Jane Owsley
Warwick, Marianna Smith
Hile, Ruth Baker Johnson,
Mary Shepard Wiley, Bar-
bara Lamson Cummings,
Alma Hill, Betty Brown
Guild

1935

First row: Frances Mc-
Ternen Coan, Clara Holland
Chase

Top row: Lucia Nunez
Mason, Doris Anderson
Clark, Susan Hildreth
Goodwin

1940

First row: Nancy Harri-
son, Joan Webster, Jeanne
Cowles Wilson

Top row: Carolyn Bitt-
ner, Ruth Poore, Dorothy
Garry

Abbot Clubs

BOSTON (1892): President, Mrs. Gwen-
dolyn Bloomfield Tillson '22; Vice-presidents,
Mrs. Virginia Gay d'Elseaux '28; Mrs.
Elizabeth Sage Batchelder '33: Recording
Secretary, Mrs. Louise Risley Floyd '37;
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Marion Conant
Ireland '27; Treasurer, Mrs. Margaret Nay
Gramkow '27; Auditor, Mrs. Mary Piper
Sears '28; Program Chairman, Mrs. Faith
Chipman Parker '31; Directors 1 944-1946,
Mrs. Katharine Allen Babson '31, Mrs.
Martha Ransom Tucker '37, Miss Priscilla
Richards '31. Directors 1 945-1947, Mrs.
Lydia Kunkel Eldredge '21, Miss Irene
Atwood '18, Mrs. Ruth Baker Johnson '30.

A buffet luncheon will be held Wednes-
day, November, 7 at the College Club.

CHICAGO (192 1): President, Mrs. J.
Allen Lind (Mary Simpson); Secretary, Mrs.
Edith Bullen Creeden, 461 Hill Rd., Win-
netka; Treasurer, Mrs. Margaret Hall Walker.

CONNECTICUT (1923): President, Miss
Sara Peck, 20 Fairview Ter., Derby; Secre-
tary-Treasurer, Mrs. Virginia Lawton Cheney,
36 Morse St., Hamden.

The annual meeting will be held this fall.

DETROIT (1922): President, Mrs. Thom-
as Nalle (Harriet Balfe) , 1 2 1 1 Willow Lane,
Birmingham.

MAINE, EASTERN (1926): President,
Miss Eleanor Bird, 250 Broadway, Rockland;
Vice-president, Mrs. Frances McDougall Mc-
Loon; Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. Annetta
Richards Bryant, Round Pond.

MAINE, WESTERN (1922): President,
Mrs. Harold Robinson (Harriette Woolver-
ton), Cape Elizabeth; Treasurer, Mrs. Char-
lotte Baldwin Frohock.

The club hopes to resume meetings this
year.

NEW YORK (1898): President, Miss
Gertrude Holbrook '25; Vice-presidents, Mrs.
Laura Scudder Williamson '24, Mrs. Helga
Lundin Buttrick '23; Recording Secretary, Mrs.
Grace Leyser Boynton '19; Corresponding
Secretary, Mrs. Jane Owsley Warwick '30;
Treasurer, Mrs. Ruth Cann Baker '3 1 ;
Directors, Mrs. Helen Danforth Prudden '13,
Mrs. Eunice Meigs Pease '21, Mrs. Ethel
Thompson James '24.

The fall meeting will be held Saturday,
December 1. Miss Hearsey will be the
guest of honor.

OHIO, CENTRAL (1921): President,
Secretary, Mrs. Paul Meek (Louise Norpell),
5600 Meek Rd., Worthington.

OHIO, CLEVELAND (1927): President,
Mrs. George Worthington (Madeleine Fiske),
Chesterland, Ohio.

OLD COLONY (1924): President, Mrs.
Richard M. Thompson (Ruth Niles), 300
Woodlawn St., Fall River; Secretary and
Treasurer, Mrs. Louise Thompson Cortrell,
372 Madison St., Fall River.

The annual meeting will be held late in
October.

PITTSBURGH (192 1): President, Mrs.
George H. Jackson (Gertrude Miller), But-
ler, Pa.; Secretary, Mrs. Joseph M. Browne
(Eliza Atwell), 529 Pine Rd., Sewickley.

GIFTS TO ABBOT

From two appreciative parents of recent graduates: $500.00 each.

From the Class of 1945, for re-furnishing the Senior Parlor: $300.00.

From an alumna: $100.00.

From the Class of 1895, for an Abbot Scholarship Fund: $1090.00.

Maud Morgan has presented to the school her oil painting, "Green
Landscape."

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Alumnae Association

Annual Meeting of the Abbot Alumnae Association, May ig, ig^j

The annual meeting of the Abbot Alumnae
Association was held on Saturday, May 19,
in Abbot Hall. Mrs. Virginia Gay d'Elseaux
presided in the absence of the president,
Mrs. Roberta Kendall Kennedy. A record
attendance of over one hundred listened
with keen interest to the routine reports
from the officers of the Association. The
clerk, Mrs. Susan Hildreth Goodwin; treas-
urer, Mrs. Laura Cheever Downs; auditor,
Mrs. Jean David Blunt; executive secretary,
Miss Marion McPherson, and general sec-
retary, Mrs. Constance Parker Chipman.
Mrs. Chipman also read the list of twenty-
one alumnae who had died during the year.

An attractive feature of the meeting was
the arrival of the senior class who were pre-
sented by Miss Hearsey to the Association
as an outstanding group of new alumnae,
and who were accepted in the name of the
Association by Mrs. d'Elseaux. Miss Hearsey
then extended her always cordial greeting

and welcome to the alumnae, expressing
also her regret that Mrs. Polly Bullard
Holden's term of office as alumna trustee
had expired. Mrs. Holden has made a not-
able contribution to the cause of alumnae
relations as a member of the Board of Trus-
tees.

Announcement was then made of the
election to the Board of the new alumna
trustee, Mrs. Helen Allen Henry 1937,
daughter of Mrs. Helen Abbott Allen 1904,
who will serve a term of six years. Miss
Margaret Van Voorhis, senior alumna
trustee told the alumnae of her pleasure in
representing them on the Board, and urged
their fuller co-operation with Mrs. Henry
and herself. The president of the New York
Abbot Club, Miss Gertrude Holbrook,
brought greetings from the club, and invited
all who could to attend the meetings of the
club, in December and April.

Reports were made by the reunion chair-

men of the following classes: 1895, Miss
Helen Elizabeth Muzzey; 1900, Miss Mary
Bancroft; 1905, Mrs. Frances Cutler Knick-
erbocker; 1910, Mrs. Emily Silsby Morgan;
191 5, Miss Marion Brooks: 1920, Mrs. Isabel
Sutherland Kurth; 1925, Mrs. Evelyn
McDougall Hay; 1930, Mrs. Kathie Fellows
Ingraham; 1935,. Mrs. Doris Anderson
Clark; 1940, Mrs. Jeanne Cowles Wilson;
1944, Miss Nancy Mclvor.

Mrs. d'Elseaux invited all to attend the
social period in the Alumnae Headquarters,
and expressed her appreciation of the work
of the tea committee, Mrs. Hilda Lynde
Wylie, and Mrs. Betty Dix Goddard.

The meeting was then declared adjourned
until 1946, when the 75th anniversary of the
Alumnae Association will be observed.

REPORT OF THE TREASURER 1944-45

RECEIPTS — June 1, 1944

Balance in Andover National

Bank $ 809.72

Interest from invested fund 25 1 . 56

Check for Centennial Plate 2 . 00

$ 30.00
3-05

16.57

♦EXPENDITURES

Alumni Council dues

Abbot Commencement

Mrs. Chipman's expenses New

York Abbot Club
American Alumni Council

meeting at Amherst
Senior Coffee Party
Announcements for Spring

meeting of Association
Speaker for Spring meeting
Postmaster — stamps for use of

treasurer

Total Si 59. 52

Balance in Andover National

Bank 903 . 76

.90

.40

.00

•85

Total receipts

11,063.28

$1,063.28
Respectfully submitted

Laura C. Downs
May 14, 1945

I have examined the within accounts and
find the balance $903.76 correct.

Jean D. Blunt,

A uditor
*condensed for publication

In Memoriam

1864

Clara Fisher, widow of Judson Baldwin,
died on September 6, in Roxbury.

1868

Harriet Abbott, widow of Rev. Francis E.
Clark, died on September 24', in her 95th
year. She with her husband founded the
Christian Endeavor Movement in 1881, and
together they travelled around the world
carrying on the Christian Endeavor work.
Today it includes members of eighty denom-
inations, in more than one hundred coun-
tries. She was internationally known as the
"mother of Christian Endeavor."

Rebecca Davis, wife of the late Dr. George
A. Spalding, and mother of Honora Spald-
ing 1902, died on September 18, in Amherst,
N.H.

1879

Susan Aiken, widow of Charles W. Perry,
died February 1 .

1880

Anna Potter Chamberlain died on Jan-
uary 30.

Edna Thompson, widow of James A.
Towle, died August 22 in West Roxbury.

She leaves a son Franklin W. Towle, a
daughter Marian Towle Sturgis, 1908.

1884
Marcia W. Morse, Mrs. George L. Davis
died on October 30, 1943.

1886
Abbie Sheldon, Mrs. Charles J. Sargent,
died in 1942.

1887
Catherine F. Crocker died August 20.

1889

Edith Puffer Moore died May 3, in Florida.
She leaves a son, Lawrence Moore Jr. and a
daughter, Elizabeth Moore Hood, 1918.

1890

Hattie I. Bliss, widow of Richard L. Rich-
ard, died on November 29, 1944, in Spokane,
Washington.

1897

Elizabeth L. Forsyth died December 16,

1943-

1900

Edith Valpey died on September 18, in
Andover.

1920
Catherine Greenough died on April 1 1 .

Class News

1874

John H. Manning, husband of Mary
Woodbridge, died in Andover, on May 25.

1881

Frederic Bayley Pratt, husband of Caro-
line Ladd, died May 3, at Glen Cove, L. I.
Six years ago Mr. and Mrs. Pratt celebrated
their fiftieth wedding anniversary. A son,
Charles Pratt had succeeded his father as
president of Pratt Institute. Mr. Pratt was
for thirty years vice-president of the Brook-
lyn Bureau of Charities.

1885

Fannie Hardy Eckstorm has sent the pros-
pectus of her new book "Old John Neptune
and Other Maine Indian Shamans," pub-
lished by the Southworth-Anthoensen Press,
Portland, Maine.

1889

Marion Howard Hutchinson and her hus-
band celebrated their 50th wedding anni-
versary in August 1944, with four children,
nine grandchildren and one great grandchild
present. Four boys are in the service. She is
now living permanently in Hampton, New
Hampshire.

Annis Spencer Gilbert's granddaughter
Mary Annis Rich, is one of the new girls this
fall.

1892

Fanny Gordon Bartlett made the front page
of the Boston Herald in August in the story of
her son, Lt. Com. Samuel Bartlett, whose
services were spoken of as valuable to Gen-
eral MacArthur in connection with the sur-
render and advance occupation, because of
his proficiency in the Japanese language and
knowledge of the people, not only from his
boyhood life with his missionary parents,
but from later experience in business there.
Since then in Boston he had served in im-
portant capacities on labor and employment
security boards. His two brothers, Lt. Don-
ald and Lt. Robert also in the Navy, have
been in the Pacific, and Dr. Agnes at an
Arizona hospital.

1895

Only two members of the class were able
to attend their Fiftieth Reunion, Helen
Elizabeth Muzzey and Laura Wentworth
Richards. However the reunion was a not-
able one. The class has made the generous

gift of Si 090.00 to an Abbot Scholarship
Fund.

1896

Grace Pearson Preston's son, Com. Alex-
ander Pearson Preston, was married on May
26, to Mary R. Heard, in Cambridge.

Florence Holt, for many years a teacher
in the Andover public schools, is now living
with her niece, Pauline Burtt Wallace, 1932,
in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

1897

Jason D. Emerson, husband of Edith H.
Taylor, died on September 10.

1900

The class of 1900 held its 45th reunion
with four members present. We met for the
reading of letters from those not able to be
with us, and exchanged class news, after
which we went to Constance Chipman's for
luncheon, having Miss Mason as our hon-
ored guest.

After the interesting Alumnae meeting
there was a chance to visit with old friends.
We were the guests of the school at dinner in
the beautiful Bailey dining room. The day
ended with the Draper Dramatics. Even
though we were so few in numbers, it was a
great joy to be together again.

Mary Bancroft, Reunion Chairman

Dr. John Gale Hun, husband of Leslie
Crawford, died on September 15, in Prince-
ton, N.J. In 191 7 Dr. Hun founded the Hun
School in Princeton which has drawn boys
of pre-college age from many states in the
union.

1901

Charlotte Holt Burtt has a responsible
position in one of the cottages at the Perkins
Institution for the Blind. Her married son
has been a bomber pilot in the Pacific, and
Brooks is an army corporal. Two grand-
children are the small daughters of Pauline
Burtt Wallace, 1932.

1902

Florence Lindenberg Harrison's daughter
Clara Louise was married to Lt. Charles
Henry Kent on August 25.

Send that new address at once to the
Alumnae Office!

1903

Edith Burnham Roberts' son John Burnham
Roberts was married on June 2 to Jane C.
Rile. He is a graduate of Dartmouth, re-
ceived his M.S. degree from M.I.T., and has
been a chemical engineer with the E. I.
Dupont Co. since 1936. Edith has been
chairman of Gray Ladies of the Manchester
Red Cross, and has worked at the Grenier
Field Air Base Hospital throughout the war.

1904

Helen Abbott Allen has a new grand-
daughter Nancy Abbott Allen, born to her
son Lawrence Allen, Jr., August 21.

1905

Frances Cutler Knickerbocker and Fannie
Erving Arundale represented their class at
their Fortieth Reunion.

Elizabeth Cole has returned to Andover
from New York to take charge of the Book
Department in the Andover Book Store.

1908

Winifred Ogden Lindley announces the
arrival of grandchildren, born to her two
sons. John Marshall Lindley, III, born
March 26, and twins, Priscilla Ann and
Margaret Chappie born on July 10. Her
daughter Winifred is working in a newly
set-up psychological department at M.I.T.

1909

Frances Wright Kimball's son, Frederick
Wright Kimball was married to Alice Marie
James on August 1 1 .

Alice Holt Jenkins who took her husband's
place as manager of the Walnuthurst Dairy
in Andover after his death some years ago,
has her daughter Eleanor at home with her.
Elizabeth is near her husband, Capt.
Wright, who is stationed at Wright Field in
Ohio. Pfc. Burton is in France.

1910

Seven members held a successful Thirtieth
reunion luncheon: Dora Heys Pym, Lillie
Johnson Smith, Ruth Murray Moore, Ruth
Newcomb, Ethel Regeluith Darby, Emily
Silsby Morgan, and Louise Tut tie Abbott.

Clarissa Hall Hammond's son Hal, is
entering Harvard College this fall.

1911

Bernice Boutwell Parson's three sons are
growing up fast. Phil Jr. eighteen, has com-
pleted his pre-medical work at Syracuse

University and is entering New York Uni-
versity Medical School. Douglas has grad-
uated from Tilton School for Boys, and
Milton twelve, is in Junior High. Bernice is
teaching weaving at the Lovell Hospital at
Fort Devens once a week.

Charlotte Cowing Cooper has returned to
this country after twenty-six months in the
South Pacific as an executive of the Ameri-
can Red Cross field staff. Her work included
the operation of a club for enlisted men of the
1 st Cavalry; directing a club for nurses; and
later becoming head of the arts and crafts
section of the Southwest Pacific. She has
now become head occupational therapist at
the Army's Fletcher General Hospital,
Cambridge, Ohio.

Ruth JViles Thompson became a grand-
mother on the arrival on April 23, of a
daughter Deborah Wallace Dodge, to her
daughter Elizabeth. Her younger son Ted
enters Yale November 1 .

Katherine Ordway Parker's daughter
Marjorie, was married on September 29, to
Capt. George Austin Dorr, Jr.

Dorothy Small Wescott's daughter Jane
was married last November to James Lamb
in the Coast Guard Service. Last May she
graduated from Wheelock College, and is
opening a kindergarten in Nantucket this
fall.

1912

Frances Skol field Smith's daughter Bar-
bara, is one of the new girls at Abbot.

1913

Gladys Estabrook Blanchard's son, Ensign
Edward P. Blanchard, Jr. was married on
April 28 to Cornelia A. Crossley.

1914

Married: Constance Barbev to Frederic
Channing Bowditch, in September, in
Brookline.

Helen Gilbert Rich has sent a second
daughter to Abbot this fall, Mary Annis
Rich. Elizabeth graduated in 1944.

Frances Jones Steinmetz writes, "Having
always lived so far away from Abbot, my
personal contacts have become fewer and
fewer as the years go by. The Bulletin,
therefore, brings me a great deal of pleasure
and anticipation. Having noticed in the last
Bulletin, that my roommate, Frances
Dowd Chittenden has a family similar to
mine, I was inspired to record my three,

Marilyn is finishing her sophomore year at
Mills College, Phil is leaving for Stanford,
he will be eighteen in December, and Bobby
will be in the fourth grade next year. My
war work is at the Red Cross Blood Donor
Center here in Portland (Oregon)."

1915

Dear "i gibers": Little did I think the
response would be so great. Almost everyone
sent some word and eleven girls were on
hand for the class luncheon. Perhaps the
illusion will be shattered (see photo) but we
all thought we looked "about the same"
despite perhaps added poundage, or loss of
same, and some gray hairs. We shared ex-
periences and admired photographs. Quite
naturally the foremost topic was the war
and the sons fighting in it. Let me say here
how happy I am for all of you whose sons
will soon be returning. It has been a long
hard vigil. We have our own WAC, Muriel
Baker Wood who wrote from "somewhere in
Italy" where she had been for fourteen
months. Her son was in France with the
7th Army. Muriel Winklebeck Lowes came
the greatest distance from Cincinnati. She
is enthusiastic about her job and a great
rooter for Cincinnati. Bunny Allen Belknap
has two sons in the service, a young daughter
at home. Her husband is assistant circulation
manager for Time, Life and Fortune mag-
azines. Phyllis Brooks Stevens has two sons
in the service, one married. Her husband
has been in Europe making a survey of man-
ufacturing plants in various countries.
Elizabeth and Catherine Leach were with
us. Elizabeth still teaching in high school.
One of "her boys" helped raise the flag at
Iwo Jima. Catherine spent last winter at
Pinehurst doing publicity work. Marian
Barnard Cole joined us. Mary Flynn Ber-
nardin's daughter was in the graduating
class. Eleanor Bartlett Atwater came from
Providence. She had two sons in the service.
Jessie Nye Blodgett is a grandmother. Norma
came on from Hartford. In June she went
to California to see her son, returning again
in August for his marriage to Kathleen
Scott on August 15.

Rena Atwood Benson wrote she couldn't
leave her home duties. Mildred Akerley
Browning was too busy farming without
help. Her son was in India, and her daughter
in the School of Nursing at the University
of Conn. Martha Lamberton Osmer sent

greetings from California. Helen Bruce But-
ler's son was in Italy, her daughter recently
engaged. Helen is in the office of the New
Hampton School for Boys. Mattie Larrabee
Whittemore wrote she was too busy with her
family and three grandchildren. She looks
too young for the role! Ada Wilkey Bull was
moving to Albany. Gertrude Shackleton
Hacker's son has entered Maine Maritime
Academy for a course in training for the
Merchant Marine.

Betty Gleason Bowen is back in this country
with her husband and son after a long con-
finement by the Japanese in Manilla. Esther
Sheldon Caldwell was on the "graveyard
shift" at the Navy yard. One of her sons was
in the Aleutians, another a paratrooper, two
more at home. Charlotte Morris Perot had a
son in France.

Let's start planning for a 100% attendance
in 1950. As Miss Hearsey said so well in her
last letter (aren't her letters a joy?) "It is
good to turn our memories to places and
times when life was comparatively un-
troubled, where lasting friendships were
made, where we obtained something that
has held us in good stead through the years."

Please send further news notes to the
Alumnae Office, and many thanks for your
co-operation .

Marion Brooks, Reunion Chairman

1916

Mildred Jenkins Dalrymple's daughter
Esther, was married to Ensign Daniel Parke
Valpey on August 25, in Methuen. Her sister
Elaine Dalrymple Borowski, '40, was her
matron of honor.

Mildred's first grandchild, Robert Philip
Borowski was born on May 29, to her
daughter Elaine Dalrymple Borowski, Abbot
1940.

1917

Esther Hungerford Staub sends welcome
news of her family. "My daughter Suzanne,
is a Junior this year at Middlebury College,
Vermont, and one of her friends is Ada
Wilkey Bull's stepdaughter. My younger
daughter Sally, graduated from Newton
High School in June and is now a Freshman
at Endicott Junior College in Beverly. This
summer my husband and I spent part of our
vacation at Nantucket and had dinner with
Dot Small Wescott '17. We talked over the
'good old days' at Abbot.' '

Cornelia Newcomb Lattin's son Frederic,
was married on June 8 to Marie C. Robert-
son. Cornelia, her daughter Harriet, and
Ruth Newcomb went to Danville, Virginia,
for the wedding. Ensign Lattin graduated
June 6 from the U.S.C.G. Academy and is
now on the USS Callaway. Fred's grand-
mother, Harriet Chapell Newcomb '76,
loaned her cottage in New London for the
honeymoon, where the couple lived until
Fred completed his course. His wife will
resume her studies this fall at the Woman's
College, University of North Carolina.

Mary Wuichet DeArmon sends word of her
family. Reed Jr., Serg. in Infantry has been
in Germany all last winter, was awarded
the Bronze Star for action near St. Lo, and
later received the Oak Leaf Cluster. Charles
is a clerk in the anti-aircraft branch of the
coast artillery. Suzanne is a freshman in the
high school.

1918

Ruth Allen Healy's husband Kent T.
Healy has been named professor of Trans-
portation at Yale University.

Louise Bacon Fuller's daughter Anne, was
married on March 1, to Major John Robert
Lyons, in Gadsden, Alabama.

1920

The Twenty-five year class had seven
present at their luncheon: Margaret Ackroyd
Hunt, Edna Dixon Mansur, Irene -Franklin
Foster, Katherine Hamblet, Lee Wicker-
sham Mills, Ruth Winn Newhall, Isabel
Sutherland Kurth.

Ruth Winn Newhall's daughter Nancy,
has entered Abbot this fall.

It's time to enter that daughter in Abbot
for 1946 or 1947!

1921

Kathleen Dike writes "Since 1941 I have
been doing precision work in a war plant,
and in 1942 I took a three months canteen
course and I have volunteered fifteen hours
a week serving food and doing hostess work
at a service club in Boston. This month of
May I plan to take a course as psychiatric
aide to enable me to help in the hospitals
for returned wounded soldiers. My hobbies:
singing lessons, painting, knitting, golf and
dressmaking. The years have been interest-
ing, many successes and many mistakes, but

Abbot character building shows through
many times to keep, us useful and happy."

Millicent Bartlett Holmberg and her hus-
band have recently held an exhibition of
their respective arts in Hollywood. Cal.
Her's were paintings including Mobiles and
Reversibles, an interpretation of the Tempo
of our Times, Earl Holmberg exhibited
sculptures in wood and stone.

Send that new address at once to the
Alumnae Office!

1923

Charlotte Hudson White's daughter Mary,
has entered Abbot.

Dorris Krum Little has been working for
over two years at the Sprague Electric Co.
in North Adams. She is an inspector of
electric capacitors and resistors going into
war equipment. She says she enjoys reading
about her Abbot friends in the Bulletin.

Dee Osborne Hall wrote "It was so fine to
read news of "23ers" in the last Bulletin
that I've made up my mind to send in news
of me and mine whenever I have it, and I
wish every other "23ers" would do likewise!
I've been president of our women's club,
chairman of the last clothing drive, carry
on as a minister's wife, and cope with the
trials and tribulations and fun of a teen ager.
Jack, fourteen is entering the Lawrenceville
School in Lawrenceville, N.J.

Dorothy Taylor Booth's daughter Dorothy
Lee, has entered Abbot this fall.

1924

Elizabeth Bragg Macintosh has two boys;
her husband is General Manager of the
magazine "Skyways" and other aviation
publications. Thanks to Helen Keating Ott
for sending Elizabeth's address to the Alum-
nae Office!

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. John Holden
(Polly Bullard) a fourth child, Martha Jane,
April 6.

Blair Perry, son of Ruth Kelley Perry won
first prize in the contest sponsored by the
League of Women Voters. His essay was
entitled "Dumbarton Oaks and World
Security."

Olive Mitchell Roberts writes that "the
oldest of my four daughters has entered
Cambridge Mt. Auburn Hospital as a Cadet
Nurse. She is the namesake of Barbara
Loomer '24."

1925

Six members of our class were present at
our 20th reunion luncheon at Mrs. Chip-
man's home. Elaine Boutwell Von Weber,
Susan Daniell Burgess, Gertrude Holbrook,
Eunice Huntsman, Evelyn McDougnll Hay
and Barbara Nelson Twombley. After lunch
we went to the Annual Meeting and later
were taken around the school to see the
improvements in Draper; the dining room
and library in the new wing. We had a very
delicious dinner with the school and then
went out to "Barb" Twombley to catch
up on class news. We were disappointed that
some who had hoped to come could not
make it. Doris Von Culin Breyer sent greet-
ings, she is busy with Victory gardening and
Red Cross surgicals. Marion Quain Kaiser
wished us much joy and pleasure in our
meeting together. The class baby, Patricia
Kaiser is eighteen years old.

Address unknown: Annie Estes Mayo.

Evelyn McDougall Hay,

Reunion Chaiman

1928

Josephine Paret Barrett's husband is a
Major in the Air Corps. She has two children
Colin, six, and Alison, three years old. Her
father, Louis Paret died in October 1944.

Enter your daughter now in Abbot for
1946.

1929

Emily Hanson Moss writes from Bermuda
that she hopes friends will be sure and look
her up if any travel her way this winter.
Her son Tom is in private school there, and
Lois, four, "should be a boy." Her address
is Karen, Fairylands, Pembroke, Bermuda.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Rolfe M. Kennedy
(Roberta Kendall) a second son, Rolfe
Mason, Jr., July 14.

Born: To Lt. and Mrs. Richard Gerstell
(Vivian Southworth) a second son, Arnold
Taylor, May 2.

Frederic W. W'hittemore, father of Pris-
cilla 1929, husband of Polly Butterfield,
1895, and brother of Margaret 1898 and
Helen 1901, died on August 30.

1930

The Class of 1930 had a most successful
Fifteenth reunion with thirteen present
including the very small son of Betty Brown

Guild. Those who met for their luncheon
were: Ruth Baker Johnson, Betty Brown
Guild, Kathie Fellows Ingraham, Jean
Harrington Farr, Alma Hill, Barbara Lamson
Cummings, Janice Lovell Jenkins, Mary
Jane Owsley Warwick, Betty Quinby Johnson,
Marianna Smith Hile, Doris Sturtevant Bacon,
Elizabeth Tarr Morse, Mary Shepard Wiley.

Alice Canoune Coates reports that she has
two prospective Abbot girls. Nancy Pearce
aged three and one half, and Marian Louise
born June 21st. She continues, "To keep my
hands from being too idle I have been deep
in club work, Literature chairman of the
Monday Afternoon Club, and Publicity
Chairman for Plainfield Community Con-
certs. My husband is now Assistant Actuary
with the Equitable Life Assurance Society.

Married: Elizabeth O'N. Stout to Harry
August Volz, Jr., September 22, in Ben
Avon, Pa.

1932

Pauline Burtt Wallace of Cape Elizabeth,
Maine, has two children, Judith, four, and
Susan two.

Born: To 2nd Lt. and Mrs. Norman Ham-
ilton (Marian Dix) a son, Stuart Phipps,
April 17.

Married: Elizabeth Holihan to Lt. John
F. Giblin, April 14, in Andover. Her sister,
Marie Holihan Foley was her matron of
honor.

Susan Johnstone is Section Economist for
the Sugar Section of the Food Price Division
of O.P.A. in Washington.

1933

Ethel Rogers went to India to serve as
an American Red Cross Hospital staff aide.

1935

Their Tenth Reunion was attended by a
group of five members of the class: Doris
Anderson Clark, Susan Hildreth Goodwin,
Clara Holland Chase, Frances McTernen Coan
and Lucia Nunez Mason.

Nancy Carr Holmes' husband has been on
duty at Fort Benning, Ga. since his return
from service overseas, and a long hospitaliza-
tion here. She, with her two and a half year
old son are with him.

Born: To Lt. and Mrs. Harry L. Mac-
Cready (Barbara Chamberlain) a daughter,
Ann Ruthvren, August 5.

Elizabeth Murphy Garrison writes that her
"twins require more than a modicum of time

and energy. They are just as different as day
and night. Mark is a great big old brunette
fatty, and Ray is a wild, wiry blonde. I still
keep up the dramatics which serve to bal-
ance the diapers and formulas!*'

1936

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Gage Olcott
(Helen Marie O'Brien a son. August 23. ***

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm S.
Loring Anne Russell a daughter, Elizabeth
Stokes on' May 9.

1937

Born: To Lt. and Mrs. Warren E. Sumner
Cynthia Holbrook a son. Charles Allen
Sumner 2nd. August 18.

Married: Jeannette Partridge to Sydney
Packard Harrison. June 2.

Ruth Rose is a laboratory technician at
Station Hospital. Newark Army Air base.

1938

Born: To Capt. and Mrs. John C Brown
Mary Elliot a daughter. Margaret Cad-
man. August 27.

Married: Rosa T. Fletcher to Capt.
Michael Pue Crocker. June 1 1, in Lexington.
Virginia. Henrietta Fletcher '39 was her
sister's maid of honor.

Born: To Lt. and Mrs. Donald A. Ross
Calla Owen a daughter Calla Jean. Aug-
ust 1944. Calla' s address is unknown, will
someone send it to the Alumnae Office?

Sally Peck has signed up with the Red
Cross for a :; tour of duty."' She was told
when interviewed," you will go in as a low
menial servant, becoming by degrees an
efficient housewife and interior decorator,
and emerging finally, as a gracious hostess!"

Married: Barbara L. Rice to T Sgt. Jones
Bond Jackson. August 22.

Born: To Major and Mrs. John B. Boothby
'Virginia Thayer a daughter Josselyn. on
June 17, 1944.

1939

Married: Margit Hintz to Pfc. Edward
Julius Lorenze 3rd., on June 23. in New York
City. A classmate. Evelyn Gottschalk Crain
was her matron of honor.

Married: Joan Killian to Capt. Thomas
Oliver Dunbar. AAF, on August 19. in
Washington. D. C.

Married: Carol Parker Armour to Robert
Walter Nickse, June 9.

Married: Jeanne Waugh to William Selby

Harney. Jr. on June 2. in Andover. Her
sifter Joan '41. was her maid of honor.

1940

The Class of '40 turned out in grand
style for its fifth reunion with around
twenty-four present. Five years doesn't seem
to make much difference except that we
began to feel our age creeping up on us when
we looked at the undergraduates. However
Abbot itself, despite the beautiful new wing,
made us feel very much at home, and the
faculty were as wonderful as ever to us. By
some miracle they seem to have grown
younger and lost their awesomeness in the
intervening five years! One of the high spots
of reunion was digging up the treasure. We
found it safe in its sealed box. and managed
to pry out its contents, chocolate ; 'gromey 3 '
crumbs, torn gossip sheet, broken record etc.
with much hilarity. I hope we will have as
much of a group back for the next reunion.
Riv. will be our chairman in 1950.

Jeanne Cowles Wilson

Molly Chase Foster's husband has just gone
overseas, and she is with her family in Mil-
ton. Sally Cole has a job with A. S. Greer
Co. in Cambridge, and is living at 130
Myrtle St., Boston. Elaine Dalrymple Borow-
ski's son, Robert Philip was born on May 29.

Mary Howard is Employment Manager
for Women at Jordan Marsh Co., Boston.
Jacquy Proctor De Brun is with her family in
Xewton as her husband is going to work in
Boston.

Anne Rivinius' mother, Mrs. George
Rivinius died on September 16, in Win-
chester.

Born: To Lt. and Mrs. Harold D. Soil en -
berger Elizabeth Travis ) a son, Robert
Travis, September 14, at Pensacola. Florida.

Marcia Wheeler Falconer and her husband
have recently paid a visit to Abbot.

Marietta Meyer was married on June 10
to William A. Ekberg, at Detroit Lakes.
Minnesota.

Marjorie McClellan graduated in June
from Connecticut College as a mathematics
major, and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
She is now employed by the U. S. West and
Geodetic Survey in the Department of Com-
merce, and living in Washington.

Send that new address at once to the
Alumnae Office.

Class of 1940 Reunion

It was five years ago

When the class of four-O

Marched down the street

In the early June heat

Bearing a rose

And twinkling our toes

To the strains of a real live brass band.

With what feelings of pride

We grasped our sheep's hide

With great sense of relief,

And yet feeling of grief

That finally this day

We must go on our way

And leave dear old Abbot Acad.

We looked forward to not wearing stockings

or hats,
We looked forward to going on unrestrained

bats,
To smoking without first making furtive

looks
Or singing out loud "Seven-twenty in the

books,' '
For such had been our wanton fad.

But then we bethought us of Intervale,

Of warming the radiator waiting for mail,

Of Sunday night vespers, and morning

chapel,
And of the regular Friday night grapple,
And sentiment entered our hearts.

The thought, however, that cheered us up

most,
Was that in the future, Oh boy, what a host
Of men would surround us
(Some others since have happily found, as
I did: calling hour beaux were best.)

So we left And over

When we'd made over

Of the reins of state

At the Abbot gate

To the following class

(Who were green as grass.

To our mature way of thinking) .

To our great surprise

We now realize

That the school carried on

After we'd gone.

As a matter of fact,

And this isn't just tact,

It really seems better than ever!

So off we went each on her own merry way,

Most off to college, some home to stay.

We made some new friends, and influenced

more people,
And got ourselves hitched beneath the church

steeple,
And gradually grew five years older.

All through this time

There was one steady chime

Of the bell of our past histories.

It gave us the news

And nostalgic blues —

The Bulletin unravelled all mysteries.

We know who's married who

And the babes they've had too,

And who has degrees

And who collects fees

From what lucrative job,

With whom they hobnob,

And so forth, and so forth, and so forth!

We also have read with eager delight
That Abbot became a more beautiful sight
With a real face lifting and some brand new

parts,
To make a better atmosphere for absorbing

the arts.
But we still like to think of the good old days.

And often the paths of two forties have
crossed,

And we've found that old friendships
haven't been lost.

And we've gossiped and talked and remi-
nisced

Till we've picked up the threads and gotten
the gist

Of all that has happened between.

So now that we find some of us once again

here,
It doesn't seem the least bit unnatural or

queer,
Because I think that we all have found
Wherever we are, we're Abbot bound.

Jeanne Cowles Wilson, 1940,

Reunion Chairman

1941

Christine Hill Winship's husband is serving
aboard the USS North Carolina off Japan,
part of the powerful Pacific fleet engaged in
occupying Japan.

Joan List has a position as Associate Editor

of "Miss America" magazine, and is living
in New York City.

Married: Harriet Kelly Means to Lt. John
Raymond Kleiser on June 30, in Lebanon,
Pa. Harriet graduated on May 28 from
Randolph-Macon Women's College.

Engaged: Jane Parrot to Arthur K.
Brown, Jr.

Married: Jane Towne to T-5 Richard W.
Johnston USA, September 15. She expects
to live in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

Married: Nancy Whittier to Ralph Massie
Atchinson, USNR, September 9.

Are you telling your friends about Abbot?

1942

Engaged: Irene Abbott to S/Sgt. Kenneth
P. MacPherson.

Engaged: Dorothy Barlow (aff. '42) to
Lt. (j.g.) John Edward Gayton.

Engaged: Mary Margaret Boynton to
Ensign Robert C. MacPherson.

Engaged: Charlotte Eaton (aff. '42), to
Lt. Malcolm Southack Burr, USAAF.

Engaged: Diantha Hamilton to Lt. Com.
Joseph Matthem McDowell.

Engaged: Louise Leslie to Lt. Harmon W.
Hubbard, USAAF. Louise is attending the
Longy School of Music.

Engaged: Patricia Pierpont to Richard
Whitaker Graves.

Engaged: Ruth Rathbone to Lt. (j.g.)
Edward Whitaker Hildreth.

Margaret Sime spent some weeks teaching
the three R's in a Prep, school in Scotland.
This fall she expects to return to St. Andrews
to continue studying for her degree in
Physics.

1943

Married: Margaret Jacobus to Lt. (j.g.)
John Ridgway Jaeckel, April 24, in New
York City.

Cynthia Lovely is a student nurse at the
Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in
Hanover, New Hampshire.

1944

A recent letter from Patty Chandler tells
of her marriage on May 19, to Trooper
James A. Wilson, Royal Armoured Corps.
After a few weeks in England her husband
"went abroad to Ostend, and then went on
to Germany where he has been for a month.
I expect he will be home sometime in
December as he is due to come out of the
army about then, and I am hoping we shall
be together for Christmas.

The weather here is perfectly awful,
typical of all the things you read about
English weather. I suppose by the time this
reaches you school will have started again.
It really seems ages since I was at school
myself.

The shortages here are the same as ever
and even more things are being rationed. It
gets horribly monotonous at times, and I
often wish I were back in the States where I
could get all the things I wanted. At the
moment I am spending a few days with my
mother helping take care of the two babies,
one of fifteen months, and the other almost
two months. I can't imagine how she does
it when she is alone.' '

Address: 55 Gloucester Crescent,

Regents Park; London N.W. 1 ; England

Elizabeth Frank has entered Russell Sage
College.

Married: Ruth Goodall to Virgil Ian
Pitstick, Jr. in Sanford, Maine, August 18.

Engaged: Shirley Harrison (aff. '44) to
Walter C. Emmett.

Married: Alva Houston to Lt. Richard
Keith Davis on August 25, in Andover. Her
attendants were all classmates, Betty Colson
as maid of honor, Nancy Mclvor and Ruth
Martin (aff. '44), as bridesmaids.

Alma Mastrangelo received Freshman
honors at Wellesley College.

Send that new address at once to the
Alumnae Office!

Ccurlesy Abbo\<

'Do you think she's the college type?"

The products

The Class of 1945

Barbara B. Ball, Smith

Barbara Beecher, Wellesley

Rosalie V. Benton, University of Colorado

Josephine C. Bernardin, Vassar

Martha A. Boynton, Wellesley

Elizabeth W. Brown, Colby College

Esther L. Bufferd, Sarah Lawrence

Ann C. Bushnell, Barnard College

Janet N. Craig, Garland School

Elizabeth Dickerman, Mt. Holyoke

Nancy Dodge, Pierce Secretarial School

Ann Dorsel, Erskine Junior College

Gretchen G. Fuller, Massachusetts School of Art

Julia Gage, Bennett Junior College

Elizabeth Graves, Barnard College

Phyllis Hard on, Briar cliff Junior College

Barbara Haserick, Archer & Elkins School of
Photography

Helen Hodges, Wellesley

Mary Jane Hodges, Bryn Mawr

Joan Holdsworth, New England Baptist Hos-
pital

Jean L. Jones, Smith

Mary Jane Kurth, Mt. Holyoke

Ruth Lazarus, Sargent College Physical Educa-
tion

Sally D. Leavitt, Radcliffe

Suzanne Leland, Briar cliff Junior College

Andree Luce, Wheaton

Grace E. Lurton, Connecticut College

Andrea Lyons, Goucher College

Marion E. Marsh, Bennington College

Marian C. Mclver, Wheaton

Marjorie C. Milne, Br iarcliff Junior College

Joan Mitchell, Finch Junior College

Katharine Mulford, Briarcliff Junior College

Jean Mulvey, Wellesley

Helen Norris, University of New Hampshire

Hilary Paterson, Vassar

Patty Patton, Sweet briar

Anne Marie Persson, Radcliffe

Janet Redman, Vassar

Molly Robbins, Katharine Gibbs, New York

Nancy B. Selinger, Wells

Cynthia H. Smith, Wellesley

Shirley R. Sommer, Wellesley

Sally M. Spear, Barnard

Mary Lou Stegner, University of Michigan

Nancy Stone ( '44) , Vassar

Joan Sweeney, Bennett Junior College

Mary J. Taylor, Briarcliff Junior College

Madge M. Twomey, Radcliffe

Beatrice Van Cleve, Colorado College

Holly R. Welles, Smith

Epilogue

From the hills we have brought you, oh Mountain Laurel,
From the far away blue of the mountain's side,
From the clear mountain air, oh Mountain Laurel,
We have brought you hither with us to abide.

Bring to us beauty, oh Mountain Laurel,
A clear vision of heights unclouded by fear,
That our lives may be strong, oh Mountain Laurel,
As the mountains stand firm from year unto year.

We plant you with purpose, oh Mountain Laurel,
A symbol of how we would grow and have grown
From our roots here at Abbot, oh Mountain Laurel,
May they bind us forever, oh tree, like your own.

Tree Song by Barbara Beegher 1945

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Abbot Academy Alumnae Association

Associate Member of American Alumni Council

President

Mrs. Rolfe M. Kennedy
(Roberta Kendall)
255 Park Lane
Douglaston, N. Y.

Vice-presidents

Mrs. Frank C. D'Elseaux

(Virginia Gay)
9 Lawrence Street
Winchester, Mass.

Mrs. Ernest F. Tillson
(Gwendolyn Bloomfield)
50 Windsor Road
Wellesley Hills, Mass.

Mrs. Douglas Donald
(Edith Johnson)
8 Carisbrooke Street
Andover, Mass.

OFFICERS, 1 944- 1 946

Clerk
Mrs. Edwin H. Goodwin
(Susan Hildreth)
371 Highland Avenue
Winchester, Mass.

Treasurer
Mrs. James E. Downs
(Laura Cheever)
Bancroft Road
Andover, Mass.

Social Secretary
Mrs. Reeve Chipman
(Constance Parker)
5 Morton Street
Andover, Mass.

Executive Secretary
Miss Marion McPherson
3^ Summer Street
Andover, Mass.

ALUMNAE TRUSTEES

I942-I94 8 i945~ I 95i

Miss Margaret Van Voorhis Mrs. Lenert W. Henry

304 Lexington Avenue (Helen Allen)

New York City, N. Y. 246 Glen Road

Weston 93, Mass.

ABBOT CLUB PRESIDENTS

BOSTON

Mrs. Ernest F. Tillson
(Gwendolyn Bloomfield)
50 Windsor Road
Wellesley Hills, Mass.

CHICAGO

Mrs. J. Allen Lind

(Mary Simpson)
1239 As bury Avenue
Winnetka, 111.

CONNECTICUT

Miss Sara G. Peck
20 Fairview Terrace
Derby, Conn.

DETROIT

Mrs. Thomas Nalle
(Harriet Balfe)
1 2 1 1 Willow Lane
Birmingham, Mich.

MAINE, EASTERN

Miss Eleanor Bird
250 Broadway
Rockland, Maine

MAINE, WESTERN
Mrs. Harold Robinson
(Harriette Woolverton)
Cape Elizabeth, Maine

NEW YORK
Miss Gertrude E. Holbrook
Stonecrest Apartments
Larchmont, N. Y.

OHIO CENTRAL
Mrs. Paul Meek
(Louise Norpell)
Worthington, Ohio

OHIO, CLEVELAND

Mrs. George Worthington
(Madeleine Fiske)
Chesterland, Ohio

OLD COLONY

Mrs. A. Scudder Moore
(Ruth Murray)
96 South Elm Street
West Bridgewater, Mass.

PITTSBURGH
Mrs. George H. Jackson
(Gertrude Miller)
515 North McKean Street
Butler, Pa.

ABBOT ACADEMY BULLETIN

Series 13

FEBRUARY, 1946

Issue 2

Table of Contents

page

Frontispiece: The Rebekah M. Chickering Leisure Reading Room

What is Remedial Reading? .... Jane Sullivan 1931

Alumnae Interests:

The Human Engineering Laboratory . . Lois Kimball 192J
How to Conquer War Sydna White 1927

Charlotte Gowing Cooper ign

My Austral War

Mary Ethel Bancroft .

School Events .

Abbot Alumnae Association

Glass Reunion Chairmen

In Memoriam

Abbot Clubs

Class News

Record of War Service

M.B.R

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Back cover

THE EDITORIAL BOARD

JANE B. CARPENTER, 1892, honorary

CONSTANCE PARKER CHIPMAN, 1906, Editor in Chief

marion r. Mcpherson, 1918

ROBERTA KENDALL KENNEDY, 1929, ex officio

Published four times yearly, October, February, May, and September, by Abbot Acad-
emy, Andover, Massachusetts.

Entered as second class matter December 12, 1933, at the post office at Andover, Massa-
chusetts, under the act of August 24, 191 2.

THE REBEKAH M. CHICKERING LEISURE READING ROOM

What Is Remedial Reading!

Jane Sullivan, 1931

EADING is a much more complicated process
than is generally realized. One authority states
that mature reading involves nearly one hundred
different skills. Some of these skills are mechanical,
some are intellectual. These numerous skills are de-
veloped progressively from the first grade through
college. Whenever the development of one of these
skills is inadequate, the student falls behind in his
reading, and it is the task of the remedial teacher to
correct the trouble. Remedial Reading is therefore
exactly what the term implies: remedying and elimin-
ating poor reading habits.

Until the last fifteen years the teaching of reading
was considered a problem of the elementary school.
It was assumed that any child who had completed the
eighth grade was able to read. It is true that basic
routine habits have usually been established in the
elementary grades. However, numerous reading in-
vestigations have indicated that an unnecessarily
large number of secondary school pupils read so poorly that they do not
profit sufficiently from the printed materials presented in their courses. It is
to assist pupils to correct their difficulties, develop the necessary reading
skills, and adjust their reading to the variable demands of their courses that
remedial reading courses have been inaugurated in secondary schools and
colleges.

A remedial or corrective program at the secondary school level includes
the development and improvement of the following skills :

Jane Sullivan, Abbot
1 93 1, Wheaton Col-
lege 1935, received
her Ed.M. from Boston
University, majoring
i n psychology and
reading disabilities.
She now teaches Re-
medial Reading at
Abbot.

I. Silent and Oral Reading.

This includes the mechanics and speed of reading.
II. Vocabulary Enrichment.

This includes word recognition and word meaning.

III. Spelling.

This includes the study of rules as well as a study of pho-
netic and non-phonetic words.

IV. Thorough- type Reading.

This includes such skills as following directions, selections
of main ideas and details, location of information,
systematic note-taking, and the organization of material
in outline, summary or precis form.

V. Associational Reading

This includes exercising judgment while reading,
drawing inferences and conclusions from material,
and evaluating material.

VI. Methods of Study.

This includes means of improving concentration and
the ability to memorize, organization of study plans,
and actual practice in ways to study each subject in the
curriculum.

At Abbot the students are selected for the remedial or study skills
classes on the basis of tests administered in the Fall to each new student.
Teachers' recommendations are also used as a basis for selection. The pupils
are placed in groups according to their specific needs. If the reading problem
is a serious one, the student receives individual assistance in overcoming her
difficulty. As soon as her performance warrants it, the student is dropped
from the classes.

There is not space enough to discuss the techniques used in developing
all the reading skills taught at the secondary school level. For this reason I
shall discuss in detail only one aspect of the remedial program at Abbot —
the technique used in improving rate of reading. The Harvard Reading
Films are used for this purpose. The motion picture technique which is em-
ployed in these films was developed at the Psycho-Educational Clinic of the
Harvard Graduate School of Education. The purpose of the films is to in-
crease rate of reading by enlarging the recognition span (the number of
words read in one pause) and by establishing the habit of reading in a regular
sequence of pauses from left to right.

The films project phrases or sections of the lines of print across and down
the screen according to the patterns of the pauses of the skilled reader. The
length of the phrases is varied according to the difficulty of the selection.
The material is presented as black words on a white background thus re-
taining similarity to the printed page. The phrases are presented in units
which disappear as soon as the next unit appears. This makes the films real
"pacing" devices which carry along the slow readers. Many who read slowly
make no attempt to speed up their reading under normal conditions because
they are afraid they will miss something. With the films they are forced to
increase speed because they realize they will miss all if they fall behind.

It is obvious that rapid reading without comprehension has no value.
Therefore a comprehension check follows the presentation of each film. In
order to provide the student with an immediate opportunity to transfer the
film reading practice to a normal reading situation, a timed reading selection
with comprehension check is presented after each film. A graphic record is
kept of the student's achievement in terms of speed and comprehension.

Of course, rate of reading varies with the purpose for which the material
is being read. One would not read a newspaper at the same speed one would
study a treatise in philosophy. However, it is generally agreed that for ordin-

ary purposes of study a rate of at least 300 words per minute with good com-
prehension is necessary. The reading films have been very successful in helping
students to attain this speed. By checking at intervals following the comple-
tion of the course, it has been found that the gains achieved during the course
have been retained. During the course one student's rate increased from 153
words per minute with 30% comprehension to 310 words per minute witb
90% comprehension. When tested one year later her rate and comprehension
remained the same.

Why don't you check your rate and see whether you are an efficient
reader? If you are below the accepted standard perhaps you would like to
return to Abbot and join one of our groups!

Alumnae Interests

THE HUMAN ENGINEERING LABORATORY

Lois Kimball, Abbot 1927

THE Human Engineering Laboratory presents a tremendously challeng-
ing work. It is experimenting continuously, developing a new science of
measuring aptitudes, endeavoring to help its examinees think for themselves
more clearly in planning education or careers so that they may make the
most of their most strongly indicated aptitudes. We are continually seeking
measurements for more than the eighteen aptitudes now being included in
the program of testing. Some of us are designing new tests which is fascinating
work, though perhaps only one of many attempts may prove itself valuable.

Examinees come to the Laboratory voluntarily, usually with the desire
to clarify their own thinking. Now perhaps eighty-five percent are returning
veterans who are planning for further education and worthwhile careers.
Most of them hear of us through fellow servicemen who have found the tests
helpful.

Did you know that in the survey made of schools and colleges by the
Laboratory that Abbot is recommended for the student who has high clerical
facility, or, in our terms, high accounting aptitude and also who has gained a
high vocabulary rating in our test for knowledge of general vocabulary?
High accounting aptitude enables a student to cope with paper and pencil
work easily — more easily than those who score low — generally to read at
a better pace (and this includes the ability to read sheet music for piano).
We feel that the higher these two scores, the more readily the student accepts
and enjoys the challenge of the courses offered by the larger and oldest
schools and colleges. The less outstanding these two are, a school which is
correspondingly smaller, and with low vocabulary, may afford a fairer bal-
ance; probably this student would be somewhat lost and handicapped by
having to devote so much effort and time to clearing away the written and
reading assignments that she would have little chance for the fullness of the
academic, plus extracurricula activities.

The following books, explaining aptitudes more in detail would be inter-
esting additions for a home library. "Aptitudes and Languages", "The Too
Many Aptitude Woman", "Ideaphoria", (coined word for flow of ideas),
"Unsolved Business Problems."

HOW TO CONQUER WAR

Sydna White, Abbot 1927

WHILE I was at Abbot, the "Academics" had a one-term course on
psychology with Miss Bailey. The text book was William James' Ele-
mentary Psychology. One little point that has stood by me ever since then
was Mr. James's explanation of what happened to you if you went to the
theatre, for instance, and were moved to tears about the awful injustice done
to the under-dogs, and then came out and did nothing about the under-dogs.
The theory was that if one were emotionally moved and then failed to follow
up with action based on one's reasoning about the situation causing the
emotion, one became less sensitive and soon hardened and incapable of action.

I believe Professor James must also have said somewhere that an ac-
cumulation of such emotional upheavals unaccompanied by action may
eventually result in an explosion smashing one's inhibitions and causing
violent action. Things do happen to people. Some just petrify, some blow up.
You may get some positive help out of the blower-upper, but it's apt to be
hard to handle and come too late to do much good.

As Abbot women can belong to neither of these horrid classes, I am im-
pelled to bring the following subject matter to their attention. Abbot women
are cold with rage at the developments that brought on the last war and will
bring on the next, if something doesn't happen to prevent it. And Abbot
women want to take action about that something to prevent it.

Clifton Fadiman expressed it this way: "Something causes Peace. It. is
Government. Something will cause World Peace. It is World Government."

If you want to work for world government, and don't know how, here's
one channel for your labor. A year ago a filmstrip called "How to Conquer
War," presenting the argument for world government, was put on the
market by "Federalist Films." If you want to vent some of your feeling
about this prospect of warfare, atomic or otherwise, use your telephone and
find out whether any of your local organizations have shown the film. Then
write me immediately!

The fact is that public opinion is the only force that can bring about
world government, and this filmstrip, as the only visual presentation of the
argument, is one valuable tool for shaping that force. The film points out
(after covering historical examples of peace-unit developments from the
beginning of time, including the League of Nations), those powers that must
be given to the United Nations Organization if it is to become the organiza-
tion we must have to ensure peace.

Mark Van Doren says of the film, "Now — not tomorrow, is the time for
all people to see this film."

My Austral War

Charlotte Gowing Cooper, Abbot 191 1
Chief Arts Crafts Section for South West Pacific

THE land down under where even the outline of the continent resembles
the United States upside down is known to the pilgrims from America
as the place where everything is in reverse. Winter is summer and summer is
winter, the farther south you go the colder it gets, the less said about the
climate as you go north the better!

To give a resume of two years spent in northern Queensland, Australia,
and Dutch New Guinea necessitates condensation and a selective approach.
While there everyone talked of their prospective books but it is problematical
how many will actually materialize. Mine was to be called "Under The
Double Southern Cross," or some such play on words or arrangement there-
of! And here are some of the chapter titles.

"Red Roofs and Stained Glass," to be the impression of native archi-
tecture, — the houses built on piles with hot looking roofs and their many
small windows outlined in rectangular panes of yellow and green colored
glass.

"Septics and Syphoning Syphonias," a septic being an inside toilet —
quite a rarity until the Americans brought their own plumbing. The local
products' trade name was "Syphonia." If you were knowing you would give

Mrs. Cooper at the Crafts Training Center, Brisbane, Queensland

a quick yank and leap away from the resultant violent gushing. Australia
has beautiful waterfalls but this type is not written up in the travelogues !

"Riding the Rails" was to be the experiences of train travel going north,
the gauges getting narrower and narrower, and the speed slower and slower.
But read the book "Care of Postmaster, San Francisco" which will give you a
picture both amusing and true of an American's reaction to local customs.

The titles go on and on as my own vicissitudes directed.

As for my own personal activities, directing clubs in Australia, involved
creating an American atmosphere and serving American food — and that
was no mean triumph, which involved translating our terminology into
local parlance and vice-versa. For instance, if you wanted "Brown Betty,"
you described the ingredients and method of making. The chef says "Oh —
that's 'Apple Charlotte'." So, at first try, you end by getting "Apple Char-
lotte" which is apple sauce with bread crumbs mushed into it. After a few
tries you realize that you have to make a sample, play by play, and taste by
taste! One chapter was to be "Quivering Desserts." For the local custom was
to serve a one-in- three dessert, one molehill of jello, one of custard, one of cut
up fruit, known there as "fruit salad" whether served as a compote, a salad or
as part of a dessert.

Needless to say I was glad to terminate my struggles with food, faminous
appetites and flying ants and return to my own bailiwick of the arts and
crafts. As the Chief of the Arts and Crafts Section for the Southwest Pacific,
the job entailed getting together a staff of technical assistants, American and
Australian, of organizing material to cover procedures, procurement, pro-
fessional standards, technical handbooks on native art using their primitive
origin as inspiration for designs and patterns, to be used in the diversional
craft program in clubs and hospitals.

As Headquarters moved forward, the staff moved on nearer and nearer
to the Equator, I to Hollandia, N.E.I., where life was far different to that on
the Mainland. And that is a chapter in itself. All women lived in a stockade
Dr compound under M.P. Guard, wore slacks or trousers — never a skirt to
be seen except in the movies or an occasional U.S.O. show, My tentmates and
I called our particular area "Tobacco Row," the three of us nicknamed
"Leater," "Jeater" and "Neater."

Travel was under Army orders and either by troop ship or Army plane.
Unless it's been experienced, words fail to give an adequate picture, — get-
ting up in the middle of the night, most often in a downpour, struggling
with a valpack and musette bag — bumping to an airstrip by truck or jeep,
waiting in the tropical morning chill as the planes zoomed in and out, watch-
ing the play of lights and the sunset-like dawn dim out the brilliant morning
stars. An exciting thrill viewed from the home front, but to live through, an
experience comparable to the proverbial dishwashing!

And the things I missed most — hot water — ■ privacy — olives, and just
plain American crackers. But what I missed the very most was the North
Star, though the upside down dipper offered an occasional nostalgic thrill.

MARY ETHEL BANCROFT

i 882-1 945

Many generations of Abbot girls must have been startled by the
news of Miss Bancroft's death on December 14, just as she was
entering Symphony Hall for her beloved Friday afternoon concert.
Her connections with Abbot began many years ago, when as the
young daughter of "Banty", the much loved principal of Phillips
Academy, she came to Abbot as a day scholar. She graduated in
1900 and after four years at Smith College was soon asked to come
back to Abbot as teacher of English. There she taught from 1 908 to
1934. So her life was bound up even from her birth with the school
life of Andover.

Her friendships at Abbot particularly with her fellow teachers,
made an important element in her life and continued even after
she left the school. She spent her summers in a fine old homestead
that she owned in Mont Vernon, N. H., where she was able to show
the hospitality that flowed so happily from her cheerful spirit. She
took what pleasures there were about her, from books, nature and
friends, and good thoughts and especially from music, in which she
took such delight, that no one in the town was more faithful than she
at the "Friday Symphony." For many years her brother Cecil ac-
companied her regularly to those concerts, and after his death she
was one of a little group of Andover music-lovers who met at the
concert every week. So there was a certain fitness in her dying at
Symphony Hall just before the concert on December 14, before old
age or disabling sickness touched her, and while she could enjoy
the lovely things she accepted as her happy portion.

So in spite of loneliness she made for herself and her friends a
cheerful life that touched a large circle, where she was universally
liked and esteemed. Her modesty was as marked as her cheerfulness
and clear good sense. It was a pleasure to meet her or even to hear
her pleasant voice over the telephone. Andover will miss her, where
her friendly spirit was never downcast even in the midst of war and
desolation.

She left few relatives. Dr. Alfred Stearns until recently principal
of Phillips Academy was her cousin. A nephew and two nieces
survive her. But her home was in Andover with her chief interest
her long connection with Abbot Academy. She will not be forgotten
there among the line of noble and gifted women who have given
their best to the school.

M.B.R.

School Events

Saturday January 12, Lecture by Dr. Charlotte Whitton on "Tomorrow's
Women in Today's World"

Sunday January 13 Vespers: The Reverend A. Graham Baldwin, Minister,
Phillips Academy

Saturday January ig, Joan and Betty Rayner, Troubadours

Sunday January 20, Vespers: The Reverend Harold B. Sedgewick, Brookline

Wednesday January 23, Open Forum Meeting on "The Atomic Bomb" con-
ducted by the Student Forum group

Sunday January 27, The Reverend Roy L. Minich, D.D., Maiden

February 1 -February 5, Mid-Year examinations

Sunday February 3, Vespers : Hymn Sing

February 5-7 — Seniors at Intervale

Saturday February g, Mile. Germaine Arosa, Diseuse; Recital of Fables and
Monologues

Sunday February 10, The Reverend Arnold Kenseth, Bible Teacher at Abbot

Saturday February 16, Students' Recital

Sunday February 17, Vespers: The Reverend Charles W. Havice, Ph.D.,
Professor of Sociology, Dean of Chapel, Northeastern University

Sunday February 24, Vespers : The Andover Male Choir

Saturday March 2, Natural Color Motion Picture Lecture on American Birds
and Big Game by Cleveland P. Grant

Sunday March 3, Students' Recital

Saturday March g, Senior and Senior-Mid Promenade

Sunday March 10, Vespers: Dr. Eddy Asirvatham, Head of the Department of
Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Madras,
now Visiting Professor of Missions and Christian International Relations
at Boston University

Saturday March 16, Senior Play: "Friend Hannah" by Paul Kester

Sunday March 17, Vespers : Abbot Christian Association

March ig- April 2, Spring Vacation

Important Spring Events
Saturday April 13, Piano Recital by Kate Friskin and James Friskin
Friday and Saturday, April 26 and 27 , The Gilbert and Sullivan opera "Iolanthe"

presented by students of Abbot and Phillips at Phillips Academy
Saturday May 4, Abbot Birthday Bazaar

THE JOHN ESTHER ART GALLERY

Curator: W. Abbott Cheever
Exhibitions

January 16- March 1, Travel Posters by European and American artists, loaned
by Mrs. Francis P. McClellan

March 1 -April /, Paintings and drawings by W. Abbott Cheever

April i-May 1, Tentative; Collection of water colours, owned by the Interna-
tional Business Machine Corp. representative of western hemisphere.

May 16-June 10, Abbot student exhibition.

The Abbot Alumnae Association

i8yi-ig46

The Alumnae Association greets you in this new year of 1 946, an especial-
ly important one, as the Association will celebrate in June the seventy-fifth
anniversary of its founding in 1871 . This celebration will take place on Alum-
nae Day, June 8, at a luncheon, to which all alumnae, those holding class
reunions and those in the between years are cordially invited. Special de-
tailed notices will follow later with the full Commencement program and
applications for luncheon and room reservations attached.

Commencement dates will be June seventh to June tenth; alumnae are
urged to start planning now! The annual meeting will be held at 1 1 .30 in the
morning, so arrange to arrive early and spend a full day.

Mid-Winter Meeting of the Alumnae Association and Boston Abbot Club

A buffet dinner meeting will take place on Tuesday, March 12, at 6.30
p.m., at the College Club, Boston. The guests of honour and speakers will be
Miss Marguerite Hearsey, and Dr. Sidney Lovett, Chaplain of Yale Uni-
versity, and Chairman of the World Student Service Fund. Subject: "Salvag-
ing Youth and Education in Europe." Dr. Lovett will speak from personal
observation in Europe last fall.

"Iolanthe"

The Gilbert and Sullivan opera "Iolanthe", will be presented by stu-
dents of Abbot and Phillips on the evenings of Friday, April 26 and Saturday
April 27 (note correction from Miss Hearsey's letter) at George Washing-
ton Hall, Phillips Academy. Any interested alumnae may order tickets after
the first of April through the Ticket Office, Phillips Academy.

The Alumnae Office

District 1 of the American Alumni Council held its annual meeting at
the Exeter Inn, Exeter, N. H., from January 10 to 12. Miss Marion McPher-
son attended the session pertaining to alumnae funds, and general office
problems. Mrs. Chipman attended the session on alumnae publications.

Senior Coffee Party

On Saturday, January 19, the senior class was invited to become ac-
quainted with the alumnae office. They were shown old photographs and
class books, the functions of the stencil and addressograph machines were
demonstrated, the personal and address files were explained, with special
emphasis on the importance of always keeping in touch with the office by
means of informing the office of changes of names and addresses. Coffee
and doughnuts were served.

Class Reunion Chairmen

1886 Harriet Raymond Brosnan (Mrs. John B.) 70 Arlington St., Haverhill
1 89 1 Annie Bull Hardenbergh (Mrs. Daniel B.) 7 Orchard St., Middletown
N. Y. '

1896 Lillian Franklin Garr (Mrs. Ernest L.) 34 Russell St., Milton
1 90 1 Evelyn Garter Giles (Mrs. Howard) South Woodstock, Vermont
1906 Ruth Adams Downer (Mrs. Guy W.) 8 Warren Court, Shelburne Falls
191 1 Dorothy Bigelow Arms (Mrs. Clarence) 12 Beechmont St., Worcester
1916 Esther Kilton, 112 Charles St., Boston 14; Eugenia Parker, Denmark,
Maine

1 92 1 Marion Kimball Bigelow (Mrs. David H.) 326 Highland St., West

Newton
1926 M. Alice Perry, 175 Florida St., Springfield

1931 Doris Allen Carroll (Mrs. Edward R.), 31 High St., Marblehead
1936 Anne Russell Loring (Mrs. Malcolm B.) 500 Chester Ave., Moores-

town, N. J.

1941 Sue Long Kremer (Mrs. Frederick S.) 1 1 72 Park Ave., New York Gitv
28,N.Y. y

1945 Hilary Paterson, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Alumnae Day Committees

Chairman of nominating committee for the Alumnae Association: Mrs.
Helen Abbott Allen; Chairman of the 75th Anniversary luncheon reserva-
tions, Mrs. Marion Mellor Dean; Chairman of flowers and decorations, Mrs.
Ruth Clark Weaver.

In Memoriam

1870

Georgia Ray died in 1945.

1877

Cora P. Graves died in 1 944.

1881

Anna Hunter, widow of John Bracewell,
died September 29, 1945.

1885

Alice M. Clement died December 10, 1945.

1887

Mary Bill, widow of Elmer H. Bright,
died suddenly December 25, 1945. She
leaves two sons, Horace O. Bright and
Alexander H. Bright, a daughter Mrs.
Walter W. Weld, and four grandchildren.

1888

Mary Carter died May 12, 1944.

1895

Emily Richards died December 17, 1945.

1896

Mary Lindenberg died November 2, 1945.

1900

Mary E. Bancroft died suddenly De-
cember 14, 1945. (see page 9)

1924

Elisabeth Barss, wife of Roger R. Eastman
died January 4. Besides her husband she
leaves a seven year old daughter.

Abbot Clubs

BOSTON (1892): President, Mrs. Gwen-
dolyn Bloomfield Tillson '22; Vice-presidents,
Mrs. Virginia Gay d'Elseaux '28; Mrs.
Elizabeth Sage Batchelder '33; Recording
Secretary, Mrs. Louise Risley Floyd '37;
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Marion Conant
Ireland '27; Treasurer, Mrs. Margaret Nay
Gramkow '27; Auditor, Mrs. Mary Piper
Sears '28; Program Chairman, Mrs. Faith
Chipman Parker '31; Directors 1944- 1946,
Mrs. Katharine Allen Babson '31, Mrs.
Martha Ransom Tucker '37, Miss Priscilla
Richards '31. Directors 1945- 1947, Mrs.
Lydia Kunkel Eldredge '21, Miss Irene
Atwood '18, Mrs. Ruth Baker Johnson '30.

The Alumnae Association and the Boston
Abbot Club will renew their joint midwinter
meeting at a buffet dinner, Tuesday, March

12, at 6.30 p.m. at the College Club, Boston.
Speakers will be Miss Marguerite Hearsey
and Dr. Sidney Lovett, Chaplain of Yale
University, and Chairman of the World
Student Sendee Fund. Subject: "Salvaging
Youth and Education in Europe." Dr.
Lovett will speak from personal observation
in Europe last fall.

Reservation chairman: Mrs. Lydia Kunkel
Eldredge, 126 Pleasant St., Newton Center.

The annual spring meeting of the Boston
Abbot Club will be held on Saturday, April

13, at 2 p.m. at the College Club. Dessert-
coffee and social period will be followed by
the speaker.

Alumnae are cordially invited to attend
these meetings, and urged to save the dates
now.

CHICAGO (1921): President, Mrs. J.
Allen Lind (Mary Simpson); Secretary, Mrs.
Edith Bullen Creeden, 461 Hill Rd., Win-
netka; Treasurer, Mrs. Margaret Hall Walker.

CONNECTICUT (1923): President, Miss
Sara Peck, 20 Fairview Ter., Derby; Secre-
tary- Treasurer, Mrs. Virginia Lawton'Cheney,
36 Morse St., Hamden.

DETROIT (1922): PresUent, Mrs. Thom-
as Nalle (Harriet Balfe), 121 1 Willow Lane,
Birmingham.

MAINE, EASTERN (1926): President,
Miss Eleanor Bird, 250 Broadway, Rockland;
Vice-president, Mrs. Frances McDougall Mc-
Loon; Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. Annetta
Richards Bryant, Round Pond.

MAINE, WESTERN (1922): President,
Mrs. Harold Robinson (Harriette Woolver-
ton), Cape Elizabeth; Treasurer, Mrs. Char-
lotte Baldwin Frohock.

NEW YORK (1898): President, Miss
Gertrude Holbrook '25; Vice-presidents, Mrs.
Laura Scudder Williamson '24, Mrs. Helga
Lundin Buttrick '23; Recording Secretary, Mrs.
Grace Leyser Boynton '19; Corresponding
Secretary, Mrs. Jane Owsley Warwick '30;
Treasurer, Mrs. Ruth Cann Baker '31;
Directors, Mrs. Helen Bradley Hodgkinson
'19, Mrs. Eunice Meigs Pease '21, Mrs.
Ethel Thompson James '24.

The spring meeting of the New York
Abbot Club will be held on Saturday,
March 23, at the Hotel Lombardy. Follow-
ing the luncheon Miss Kate Friskin will give
a piano recital. New York and New Jersey
alumnae are cordially invited to attend.
Write the president, Miss Gertrude E. Hol-
brook, Stonecrest Apts., Larchmont, N. Y.
for your reservation.

OHIO, CENTRAL (1921): President,
Secretary, Mrs. Paul Meek (Louise Norpell),
5600 Meek Rd., Worthington.

OHIO, CLEVELAND (1927): President,
Mrs. George Worthington (Madeleine Fiske) ,
Chesterland, Ohio.

OLD COLONY (1924): President, Mrs.
Ruth Murray Moore; Secretary-Treasurer,
Mrs. Martha Wind Finger.

PITTSBURGH (1921): President, Mrs.
George H. Jackson (Gertrude Miller), But-
ler, Pa.; Secretary, Mrs. Joseph M. Browne
(Eliza Atwell), 529 Pine Rd., Sewickley.

Class News

1874-1890

Class Funds Secretary: Mrs. Ernest C.
Young (Ruth Childs) 6 Emerson St., Brook-
line.

1884

Fanny Hardy Eckstorm has presented
two of her books for the Alumnae bookshelf
in the library; "The Penobscot Man," and
Minstrelsy of Maine." The school has
added her recent publication, "Old John
Neptune and Other Maine Shamans."

1886

Sixtieth Reunion

Nine members from a class of eighteen
hope to attend their 6oth reunion. It will be
a real celebration!

Harriet Raymond Brosnan

Reunion Chairman

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Frank W.

Darling (Mary Gorton) Hampton, Virginia.

1890

We gladly record more of '90's grand-
children. Adeline Perry Walder passed on
five years ago. Her husband, Dr. Harold
Walker, is still in splendid health, and there
were three children. The oldest daughter
Mrs. Merritt H. Taylor of Philadelphia, has
had two sons in the armed forces in Europe,
both fliers.

Two other grandchildren, a boy of four-
teen and a girl of twelve, are children of
the daughter Eleanor who is the wife of Dr.
Francis Lee Weille.

The third daughter, Doris, has two little
children, a boy and a girl. She is Mrs. F.
George Pritchard, and lives in Conn.

"Doesn't someone know if there are any
grandchildren of Olive Wheaton?

1891
Fifty-fifth Reunion

In June '91 fifty- five years seemed years
away, far in the distance. We have arrived
and June, 1946, will be our fifty-fifth re-
union. Will each one try to be present
Alumnae Day, June 8?

Annie Bull Hardenbergh

Reunion Chairman

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Daniel B.
Hardenbergh (Annie Bull) 7 Orchard St.,
Middletown, N. Y.

1892

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Jane B. Car-
penter, School St., Andover.

1893

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Harry R.
Miles (Anna Nettleton) 4 Rock Ledge Drive,
Stamford, Conn.

1894

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Doremus
Scudder (Mabel Bosher) 133 West Ninth
St., Claremont, California.

Fred E. Dennen, husband of Annie
Strout, died October 20, 1945 in Limington,
Maine.

1896
Fiftieth Reunion

Greetings to Abbot "Ninety-six" ! Are you
all coming back to Andover in June? This is
a reminder. Those of us nearby are making
plans for your entertainment, making our
fiftieth anniversary a happy reunion. We
have sixteen members on our list and do
hope it will be possible to have you all here.
Now the war is over the dates are later and
Commencement is in June again. What
could be lovelier than Andover in June!

Lillian Franklin Carr, President
Reunion Chairman

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Henry V.
Conant (Ruth Loring) 914 High St., Ded-
ham.

1897

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Alexander
Bunce (Gertrude Ware) R.F.D. 1, Rock-
ville, Conn.

Mrs. Eben A. Baldwin, mother of Helene
Baldwin Burdick, died December 26, 1945,
in Pittsburgh, Pa.

1898

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Robert W.
Dunbar (Selina Cook) 3 Elk St., Apt. 7,
Albany, N. Y.

1900

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Arthur P.
Spear (Grace Chapman) 156 Winchester
St., Brookline.

Col. Walter Huston Lillard, husband of
Ethel Hazen, is in Germany doing field
work for the Intergovernmental Committee
on refugees.

1901
Forty-fifth Reunion

Dear nineteen-one class-mates, this is the

time;
Let's hie us to Andover, when it comes June.
Tho' glance retrospective shows years forty-
five,
I'm sure we can show them we're still much

alive.
While Abbot herself, progressing always,
Is bound to elicit our wonder and praise.

Evelyn Carter Giles

Reunion Chairman
Dr. J. A. Cushman, husband of Frieda
Billings, received the Hayden Gold Medal in
Geology from the Academy of Natural
Sciences, in Philadelphia, on Dec. 15. He
received the honor for his authoritative book
on the study of the fossils of microscopic sea
animals.

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Helen Hale,
86 Knox St., Lawrence.

1902

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Hezekiah
Poore (Mildred Mooers), 37 Ames St.,
Lawrence.

1903

Married: Elinor Barta to Clement W.
Orr, January 19. They will live in the Daniel
Webster Birthplace in Franklin, N. H.

1904

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. William O.
Pettit (Elizabeth Winsor), 186 Livingston
Ave., Brunswick, N. J.

Ruth Lane Treadway writes of the birth
of a son Robert Oakley Abbott 3rd to her
daughter Ellen Treadway Abbott, on Sep-
tember 21, 1945. The husband of her daugh-
ter Mary, Lt. (sg) Henry S. Washburn, is
"presumed to have died July 1942 in the
battle of Kula Gulf, attached to the Light
Cruiser Helena."

Janet Giese, daughter of Emily Stearns
Giese was married to Julian Elwin Oyaas,
in December, 1945.

1906
Fortieth Reunion

Come on Girls! Tho' some of us are grand-
mothers we'll show there's great vitality in
all of us, especially in our devotion to each
other and the school. June 8 is the day!

Ruth Adams Downer

Reunion Chairman

Ruth Adams Downer reports that her
daughter Sylvia is out of the Marines, and
her son Alton is still in the Pacific, expected
home in the spring.

Constance Parker Chipman has a total of
nine grandchildren. October 22, a second
son and fourth child, John Chipman Fernie,
was born to her daughter, Constance Chip-
man Fernie, and on December 17, a first
son, and third child, Reeve Chipman Parker
was born to Faith Chipman Parker, Abbot '31.

Rena Porter Hastings has a new grand-
daughter, Janet, born to her son, Hudson
Hastings Jr., on August 17, 1945- Her
youngest daughter, Amy, has a position as
Occupational Therapist in a private hos-
pital.

1907

Margaret Hall Walker's son, Robert Hall,
was married to Marguerite Elizabeth
Wachs, June 13, 1945.

1908

Helen Chaffee Manville announces the
arrival of two granddaughters; Carol Lynn
born in May to her daughter, Mrs. Carline
Osborne Walker, whose husband Ensign
Walker received his honorable discharge in
December. Peggy Jo was born in June to
her son Lt. E. Perry Manville Jr. Lt. Man-
ville has been made Flight Commander in
the Air Force, having re-enlisted in the Navy.

Esther Parker Lovett's husband, Sidney
Lovett, Chaplain of Yale, spent the fall
months in Europe in the interests of the
World Student Service Fund, of which he is
Chairman. He interviewed many professors
and students of universities whose buildings
were in ruins, and equipment lost, but whose
spirit for recovery was courageous. He is
now reporting to the schools and colleges
in this country who are supporting this
vital work of salvaging education in Europe.

It's time to enter your granddaughters in
Abbot for 1947.

1909

Mary Bourne Boutwell writes, "I had the
most delightful call with Laura Jackson
Austin 1 910, in October. We hadn't seen
each other for twenty years and more. I saw
the pictures of her three sons and their
families and the three grandchildren.
Laura has a home in Coronado but has

been with her mother on their farm in
southern Michigan.

"My family is much depleted. Our son-in-
law returned from Germany and was dis-
charged, he and Suzette hope to be in New
York."

1910

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Myron G.
Darby (Ethel Reigeluth), no Tanglewylde
Ave., Bronxville, N. Y.

Married: Dorothy Renwick to Edmund
Clarence Gosling, November 13, 1944.

1911
Thirty-fifth Reunion

Coming Up! Sunny Side Up, too! Our
35th reunion at Abbot. Do me a favor. Get
out your 191 1 Classbook (I did). Look
through it.

Do you think Maud still looks as sober as
that?
(No she doesn't, because I have just seen her)

Ts Rebecca as handsome as ever? (Yes)

Do Kathy's eyes shine and twinkle the
same? (I'm sure of it).

Is Mary Hall as tiny as ever?
That only covers the Class Officers of 191 1
but it brought up a million questions such
as Perk's pompadour, Rhoda's singing etc.
!!Warning!! We'll talk about you if you don't
come! So for self protection COME!

Dorothy Bigelow Arms

Reunion Chairman

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Douglas
Donald (Edith Johnson), 8 Carisbrooke
St., Andover.

1913

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Margaret
Wilkins, 279 N. Euclid Ave., Pasadena,
California.

, Enid Baush Patterson's daughter Jean,
was married to William V. Smith on De-
cember 8, 1945.

Carl N. Lindsay, husband of Mary
Erving, died on December 1, 1945, in
Andover.

Mrs. Lillian Gould, mother of Marian
Gould Smith, died on January 6, in Andover.

1914

Married: Elsie Gleason Buckingham to
Lowell Sloan, December 29, 1945.

From La Jolla, Cal. comes a greeting to
classmates from Margaret Wylie Ware.
"Dear Classmates of 1914: My, we have
here thanks to offer this Thanksgiving

Day. My son, Jack, just arrived home from
Saipan where he served with the 875 Bomb
Group. I have kept happy and busy as
manager of the snack-bar at the local U.S.O.
Also taught a class in social dancing and
have been coaching singers for our Saturday
night talent show. All this will continue till
spring. Good luck to all!"

It's time to enter your daughter in Abbot
for 1947! Write the school for a catalogue.

1916
Thirtieth Reunion

Dear 1916'ers: Five years ago the more
intelligent of us (who said that?) celebrated
our 25th with a combined graduation time
visit to Abbot and houseparty at Eugenia
Parker's camp at Denmark, Maine. Vera
managed to nick her nose whittling a hearth
broom and the happily married members
of our party bemoaned that friend husbands
were not on hand to enjoy the pleasures of
camp, but except for these casualties, it was
a decided success. In fact Eugenia and I
enjoyed it so much we think it the only
proper way to celebrate our 30th. We hope
you agree. I either have written or am writ-
ing you all about it so read thoughtfully,
consider carefully and make that obviously
"intelligent" decision to be on hand for
1916's 30th — June 8, 1946.

Esther Kilton
Eugenia Parker
Reunion Chairmen

George Hamer, distinguished composer
and musician, father of Lillon Hamer Atkin-
son, died October 2, 1945.

Dorothy Pillsbury Bartlett's first grandson,
Richard C. Bartlett 3rd was born on October
7, 1945, to her son Lt. (j.g.) Richard C.
Bartlett Jr. Her third son Tom who has been
an aviation cadet for two years has entered
Lafayette College.

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. James E.
Downs (Laura Cheever), Bancroft Rd.,
Andover.

1917

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Oliver D.
Wescott (Dorothy Small), 84 Main St.,
Nantucket.

1918

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. George J.
Cutler (Velma Rowell) 45 Eliot St., Jamaica
Plain.

Kathryn Cooper Richards sends news of
her family. "My husband is returning from
a year's duty in Honolulu, thus completing
three and a half years of service as a naval
doctor, and eligible for release. Our daugh-
ter Nancy is a sophomore at Connecticut
College, our older son Bob is a freshman at
Harvard, and our younger son George is a
day-pupil at Noble & Greenough School."

Margaret Morriss Clausen's son is in his
first year of Medical School at Dartmouth
under the Navy. Her daughter is a senior at
Springside School in Chestnut Hill, Pa.

Margaret Van Voorhis sang the soprano
solos in the "Messiah" at a performance at
Zanesville, Ohio, in December.

1919

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Grace L.
Boynton (Grace Leyser) 30 Engle St.,
Tenafly, N. J.

Jane Holt Atkinson's son entered Phillips
Academy last fall.

1920

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Beverly R.
Hubbard (Muriel Moxley), 172 Putnam
Ave., Hamden 14, Conn.

1921
Twenty-fifth Reunion

Our 25th reunion is on June 8! Let's have
a 100% turnout! This is an opportunity to
forget our daily routine and get reacquainted
with Abbot and our classmates. It has been
suggested that we spend a night or two
preceding reunion in a nearby seaside' hotel.
Does this meet with your approval? Please
write any suggestions you have to the chair-
man.

Marion Kimball Bigelow

Reunion Chairman

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. David H.
Bigelow (Marion Kimball) 326 Highland
St., West Newton.

Keep the Alumnae Office informed when
you move. It costs only a cent to send a post
card.

1922

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. A. Evans
Kephart (Ruth Hill), 23 Lyme Rd., Han-
over, N. H.

Helen Knight Wilkinson writes of her
family, "Have a third child and second
daughter Linda Leyland Wilkinson, born

October 1944. Wendy is now three and
Chadbourne is seventeen, a senior at Phil-
lips Academy. During the last two war
years I was president of the Lawrence
Y.W.C.A. which serves five towns.

1923

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Sterling
Dow (Elizabeth Flagg), 36 Holden St.,
Cambridge.

Mrs. Jackson W. Osborne, mother of
Dolores Osborne Hall, '23, and Betty Osborne
Bacon '29, died on August 17, 1945.

1924

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. A. John Hol-
den (Polly Bullard), 39 No. Pleasant St.,
Middlebury, Vermont.

Ruth Flather Sadler's son, Paul Sadler Jr.
was married to Merrie Anna Long on De-
cember 12, 1945.

1925

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. George B.
Beveridge (Charlotte Hanna), Sanford-
town Rd., Redding, Conn.

1926
Twentieth Reunion

To the members of the Class of '26. In
June the Class of '26 will hold its 20th re-
union; it just doesn't seem twenty years since
we graduated from Abbot. Much has hap-
pened since then and many changes have
taken place. Some of us have not seen each
other since then. Here is a grand chance to
renew all those old friendships. Let's all
make a special effort to be at Abbot on
Alumnae Day, June 8. What kind of a re-
union do you want? I need a lot of sug-
gestions and help to make it a success. If it
is impossible for you to come send news of
your family and yourself, for the May
Bulletin and our reunion. Here's hoping
I shall see you or hear from you.

M. Alice Perry

Reunion Chairman
1927

Any reader interested to know more of
Sydna White's work, Federalist Films, may
write her at 391 Bleecker St., New York
City.

1928

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Emily Sloper,
56 Russell St., New Britain, Conn.

Married: Marion Quin to Capt. Cyril
Melton Coggins, November 23, 1945. Dur-

ing the war Marion was a Price Specialist for
the O.P.A. in New York. Before that she
was a Fashion Coordinator for a coat and
suit manufacturer in New York. At present
she and her husband are living in Hender-
sonville, N. C.

1930

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Jack R. War-
wick (Mary Jane Owsley), 26 Ledgewood
Rd., Bronxville, N. Y.

The delayed report of the reunion of the
class of '30 is here given for the benefit of
those who were unable to be present. "The
class of '30 celebrated their fifteenth reunion
with enthusiasm, giggles and much chatter.
The star attraction was Betty Brown Guild's
wee new son. Ruth Baker Johnson was there,
boasting two children the eldest of which is
ten years old! Posy Castle Olivetti wrote
about her two small sons, David and Alfred,
and said, "I would like to read in the Bulle-
tin about some of you whose names haven't
appeared for a long time. Has everyone lost
touch with Gay Chamberlain, Pete Simpson,
Sis Gould, Betty Stout, Midge Turner?"

Kay Dutton Leidy told of her husband, a
Lt. in the USNR who had been on extremely
active duty in the Pacific. She and her two
and a half year old daughter, Rosanne Dutton
Leidy, have been living in Boyertown, Pa.

Grace Hadley in later news is now work-
ing at the USO in Honolulu. She is with the
junior hostesses, plans the entertainments
etc. She has had six hula lessons and loves
using the various expressive Hawaiian
words. If any of you know service men com-
ing through Honolulu tell them to look her
up at the Victory Club.

It was an unexpected pleasure when
Jeanne Harrington Farr walked in, and she
has one little girl, Constance. Alma Hill
dashed in and out. Jackie Hoyt holds the
banner for the number of children — four!
Barbs Lamson Cummings left her husband at
home taking care of Diane, aged six. Janice
Lovell Jenkins had great tales of her three,
Peter, Linda and Ann. Ruth Perry regretted
her inability to come, had to stay in Pontiac
with her two, Lynette, three and a half,
and Bobby, six months. Betty Qidnby John-
son back home in Milford, Conn, with her
three and a half year old blue-eyed daughter,
following a break in an unsuccessful marriage.

Helen Ripley has received her honorable
discharge from the WAVES, and is now
Librarian and Information Secretary of

International Education, in New York
City. She answers questions by phone, mail,
or in person from students all over the world
who want to study and wish the best school
in their field, and knowledge of living ar-
rangements. "We try to further interna-
tional understanding through student ex-
change with other countries. Many re-
quests come from veterans wanting to study
abroad just now."

El Ritchie was detained by her work in
the Navy. Dot Seller wrote of her work
during two years in the army. "I am fishing
for a transfer from Newark Army Air Base
to ATC in Manchester, N. H. Hope to
settle in Maine after the war."

Marianna Smith Hile has two girls, Martha
eight, and Sally five. Doris Sturtevant Bacon
was filling her time while her husband was
with the Marines, doing Red Cross Home
Service work and U.S.O. Frances Sullivan
was married in 1942 to James Laurence
Sullivan. While her husband was in the
Pacific she lived in San Francisco. At time of
reunion they were at Virginia Beach.
Libby Tarr Morse has one child, Judith
Elliott, two years old.

Nini Owsley Warwick

Born: to Lt. Com. and Mrs. Robert C.
Holland (Barbara Healey) a son, Peter
White, September 29, 1945.

1931
Fifteenth Reunion

To the Class of 1 93 1 ! This is our fifteenth
reunion! Let's make it the biggest one yet.
All of us who live near Andover urge all of
you who live in far away places to come to
Abbot this June 8. I would suggest one
evening with our Yearbook, if that doesn't
decide you to come, then send lots of news of
yourself.

Doris Allen Carroll

Reunion Chairman

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Parker
(Faith Chipman) their third child and first
son, Reeve Chipman Parker, December 17,

1945-

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Francis Hol-
land (Barbara Graham) 218 West Marion
Rd., South Bend, Indiana.

1932

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Dorothy Rich-
ardson, Boston Rd., Billerica.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. John S. Giblin
(Betty Holihan) a son, January 3.

Judy Wilhelmi Dodane's husband Lt.
Com. Robert L. Dodane was lost last spring
on the submarine U.S.S. Trigger. She is
working with Red Cross at Letterman Gen-
eral Hospital in San Francisco and finds her
contacts with returning veterans most stimu-
lating and interesting.

1933

Rorn: To Mr. and Mrs. Myron Clark
(Clara Smith) a son, Talbot Smith, April 25,

1945-

Have you sent your new address to the
Alumnae Office? You don't want to miss the
May Bulletin.

1936
Tenth Reunion

1 936-1 946
I can't make rhythm, I can't make rhyme,
I haven't the brains and I haven't the time.
But one thing I know that's perfectly clear
Our tenth reunion is drawing near.
From near and far, by train and car
To Abbot we will return.

Lots of familiar faces to us have gone,
But we must see to it the school goes on;
They need our support in every way — so — -
Let's make our return a memorable day!

We'll talk of our jobs, our families and such,
We'll reminisce how we got in Dutch,
Then figure whose daughter will enter with

whose;
Come on back girls! There's nothing to lose.

The war years are over
The battle is won;
Let's come back to Abbot
And see what's been done.
Let's come back to Abbot
And have some fun!

With apologies to all poetesses of '36, and
hoping to see each and everyone of you on
June 8, on the Abbot Circle.

Anne Russell Loring

Reunion Chairman

Born: To Lt. Com. and Mrs. William J.

Starr Jr. (Marion Mooney) their second

child, a son, William J. Starr III, April 23,

1945-

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Stokes
(Lois Holmes) a third child, Sharon, July 1,
1945. Mark is almost six, and Susan four.

Married: Rosalie Rappoport to Sylvan
Allen Saul, November 21, 1945.

Born: To Lt. and Mrs. John L. Simonds
(Mary Trafton) a second child, a son, Rob-
ert Langdon, October 26, 1945.

1937

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Arthur W.
Tucker (Martha Elizabeth Ransom), 632
Great Plain Rd., Needham.

Engaged: Nancy Burns to Lt. John J.
McArdleJr. M.C.

Born: To Lt. and Mrs. Addison F. Vars
Jr. (Nancy Kincaid) a son, Addison Foster
Vars III, May 3, 1945. Nancy lives at 10
Mayfair Lane, Buffalo, N. Y.

Married: Sarah Sheldon to Donald La-
Grange Miller, June 7, 1944.

Born: To Lt. Com. and Mrs. John G.
Martin Jr. (Ellen Simpson) a son, John
Garvie Martin III, September 16, 1945.

1938

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Davis Simpson
(Phyllis Saunders) a third daughter, Sarah
Ann, July 6, 1945.

Jane Vogt Moxley writes that her husband
was killed last August while strafing an air-
field near Tokyo. She with her baby Kather-
ine, are living with her family in Bingham-
ton, N. Y.

1939

Lucia Buchanan joined the Red Cross last
October, and has since been stationed at
Fort Knox, Kentucky, working in the Separa
tion Center.

Married: Henrietta Fletcher to Lt. Peter
Joseph Horan Jr. December 4, 1945.

Engaged: Mary Koch to Sgt. Peter Danos.

Married: Polly Ann Pancoast to William
C. Tunkey, August 21, 1944.

Married: Patricia Perry to Capt. Robert
Frederick Braun, June 11, 1945.

1940

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Mary Howard,
66 Myrtle St., Apt. 9, Boston.

Born: To Capt. and Mrs. F. L. Foster Jr.
(Molly Chase) a son, Robert Chase Foster,
November 22, 1945. Capt. Foster is with the
army of occupation in Korea.

Married: Marcia Colley to Major William
Curtis Melton Jr., January 30, 1945.

J 9

Engaged: Phyllis Crocker to Clifford
Wadsworth England.

Engaged: Dorothy Garry to Lt. (j.g.)
Louis Maynard Warlick.

Engaged: Ellen L. Spear to Lt. Harry A.
Moody Jr.

Married: Joan Wyatt to Donald Bramley,
December 28, 1945.

1941

Fifth Reunion

Hi Group! Long time, no see. Yes, five
whole years have gone by and now come
Spring, it's time to push your foot to the
accelerator, tie yourself to the wing, or crowd
the baggage car heading for Abbot to cele-
brate the first post-war reunion and our big
Fifth reunion. There's a gay time in store for
all of us. Old news to be brought up to date
— and well — Let's all meet at Abbot on June

8. Right? Right!

Sue Long Kremer

Reunion Chairman

Married: Jane Davey to Hamilton Stew-
art Corwin, June 12, 1945.

Married: Dorothy Dean to Mitchell John-
son Jr., October 24, 1945. Marjorie Dean
Marsden '42 was her sister's matron of
honour, and bridesmaids were Barbara
Dean '47, and Eleanor Johnson Dutoit '35.

Married: Mary Elizabeth Erkert to Henry
D. Attorfer, December 23, 1944.

Married: Nancy Gerrish to John Archi-
bald MacFadyen Jr. January 26.

Shortly after Elizabeth Harris' marriage
to James Davy on August 7, 1945, her hus-
band was killed in an auto accident, and she
received serious injuries.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Roberts G. Hanne-
gan (Doris Jones), a second son, Roger
Wightman, November 8, 1945.

Married: Margery Martin to Raymond K.
Martin November 22, 1944. In February '45
Margery graduated from New York Uni-
versity as an Institutional Manager.

Married: Jessie McCreery to Philip Macy
Reed, May 15, 1945.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Wil-
liams (Julie Nelson) a son, Edward Monroe
Jr. September 27, 1945.

Engaged: Jane Parrot to Arthur K.
Brown Jr.

Married: Amelia Shields to Eduardo
Guirola, Jr., January 5, in Mexico City.
Address: 9a Calle Porinente 12, Guatemala
City, Guatemala.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Richard A.

Hakanson (Bonney Wilson), a daughter
Bonney Lee, December 21, 1945.

Put the Alumnae Office on your list of
wedding announcements. Then send your
new address at once!

1942

Born: To the Rev. and Mrs. John B.
Reinheimer (Ann Bacon), a son, David
Bartel, November 18, 1945, in Appleton,
Wisconsin.

Born: To Lt. (j.g.) and Mrs. Darwin W.
Heath (Sue Bates), a daughter, Susan Hardy,
November 15, 1945.

Married: Louise Clark to Lt. James W.
Gilland, June 6, 1945.

Engaged: Mary Elizabeth Dunaway to
Donald Love Burnham. Mr. Burnham is in
the Navy Medical Reserve and will graduate
from Cornell Medical College in March.

Married: Charlotte Eaton (aff. '42) to
Malcolm Southback Burr, November 2, 1945.

Frances Flint's father, Dr. William W.
Flint Jr., died November 11, 1945. He had
been a master at St. Paul's School for
twenty-six years.

Margaret McFarlin graduated from the
Massachusetts General Hospital in the fall,
and is now at the Memorial Hospital in
North Conway, N. H.

Edith Ninomiya is working for her M.A.
degree at the University of Minnesota, in
Minneapolis. Her major is Far Eastern Area
Studies in the Political Science Department.
She is also acting as assistant to Dr. Werner
Levi; proctoring and supervizing exams, so
finds herself very busy generally.

Married: Ruth Rathbone to Edward W.
Hildreth, November 9, 1945.

Married: Thirsa Sands to Lt. (j.g.) Robert
Spindler Fuiks, December 27, in Yonkers,
N.Y.

Engaged: Margaret Sime to Niels Espe-
land. Mr. Espeland is a mining engineer in
Tanganyika, Africa, where Margaret plans
to fly with his mother this summer for her
marriage.

Married: Emma Ann Todd to John A.
Hemlet, December 3, 1944.

Frances Troub is studying at the Graduate
School at Yale working for her M.A. in the
department of education. She plans to
specialize in guidance work with pre-school
age children.

1943

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Marion Bur-
dine, 404 N.E. 26th Terrace, Miami, Fla.

Honora Haynes is studying sculpture at
the Boston Museum School of Art.

Cornelia McMurray is studying interior
decorating at the Parsons School of Design,
and loves it. But she adds that she wouldn't
have missed her years at Wellesley College.

Married: Betty-Lou Monnett to Major
Louis Bradburn Hess, November 24, 1945.

Engaged: Sylvia Peters to Robert Deem
Agler.

Engaged: Joyce Yoffa to Ensign Robert P.
Rudolph USNR.

1944

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Nancy Mc-
Ivor, 13 Auburn St., Concord, N. H.

Patricia Damon has transferred from the
Garland School to the Boston School of Oc-
cupational Therapy.

Married: Shirley Harrison (aff. '44) to
Walter Charles Emmett, November 23, 1945.
Her sister Nancy '40 was her maid of
honour.

Engaged: Aagot Hinrichsen to John E.
Gain Jr.

Married: Mary Ann Moss (aff. '44) to
William Royce McDonough, June 7, 1945.

Shirley Woodams writes, "Since I enjoy
so reading the news about other girls who
were at Abbot while I was there, I feel it is
certainly time I sent some news to the Bulle-
tin. Last summer I spent a month on a field
trip with the Rochester Museum. We went
to Brewertan, N. Y. in order to study two
types of Indian culture. The remainder of
the summer I spent at Eastman Kodak in-
specting Velox. In the fall I returned to the
University of Rochester. Last November I
received my Pilot's license, also was elected
vice-president of the University Aviation
Club, which has thirty-five members."

1945

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Shirley Som-
mer, 1367 Brown Hills Rd., Rockford,
Illinois.

Engaged: Gretchen Fuller to Sgt. Donald
Frazier, USAAF.

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Send Us Word by the Very Next Mail.
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Send Us Word Ere We Lose Your Trail.

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and mail before March 15, to the Alumnae Office, Abbot Academy, Andover,
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Abbot Academy Alumnae Association

Associate Member of the American Alumni Council

President

Mrs. Rolfe M. Kennedy
(Roberta Kendall)
255 Park Lane
Douglaston, N. Y.

Vice-presidents

Mrs. Frank G. D'Elseaux
(Virginia Gay)
9 Lawrence Street
Winchester, Mass.

Mps. Ernest F. Tillson
(Gwendolyn Bloomfield)
50 Windsor Road
Wellesley Hills, Mass.

Mrs. Douglas Donald
(Edith Johnson)
8 Carisbrooke Street
Andover, Mass.

OFFICERS, 1 944- 1 946

Clerk
Mrs. Edwin H. Goodwin
(Susan Hildreth)
371 Highland Avenue
Winchester, Mass.

Treasurer
Mrs. James E. Downs
(Laura Cheever)
Bancroft Road
Andover, Mass.

Social Secretary
Mrs. Reeve Chipman
(Constance Parker)
5 Morton Street
Andover, Mass.

Executive Secretary
Miss Marion McPherson
3^ Summer Street
Andover, Mass.

ALUMNAE TRUSTEES

1942-194^ i945~ I 95 I

Miss Margaret Van Voorhis Mrs. Lenert W. Henry

304 Lexington Avenue (Helen Allen)

New York City, N. Y. 246 Glen Road

Weston 93, Mass.

ABBOT CLUB PRESIDENTS

BOSTON

Mrs. Ernest F. Tillson
(Gwendolyn Bloomfield)
50 Windsor Road
Wellesley Hills, Mass.

CHICAGO

Mrs. J. Allen Lind

(Mary Simpson)

1 239 Asbury Avenue

Winnetka, 111.

CONNECTICUT

Miss Sara G. Peck
20 Fairview Terrace
Derby, Conn.

DETROIT

Mrs. Thomas Nalle
(Harriet Balfe)
1 2 1 1 Willow Lane
Birmingham, Mich.

MAINE, EASTERN

Miss Eleanor Bird
250 Broadway
Rockland, Maine

MAINE, WESTERN
Mrs. Harold Robinson
(Harriette Woolverton)
Cape Elizabeth, Maine

NEW YORK
Miss Gertrude E. Holbrook
Stonecrest Apartments
Larchmont, N. Y.

OHIO CENTRAL
Mrs. Paul Meek
(Louise Norpell)
Worthington, Ohio

OHIO, CLEVELAND
Mrs. George Worthington
(Madeleine Fiske)
Chesterland, Ohio

OLD COLONY

Mrs. A. Scudder Moore
(Ruth Murray)
96 South Elm Street
West Bridgewater, Mass.

PITTSBURGH
Mrs. George H. Jackson
(Gertrude Miller)
515 North McKean Street
Butler, Pa.

ABBOT ACADEMY BULLETIN

Series 13

MAY, 1946

Issue 3

Table of Contents

Cover design: by W. Abbott Cheever

Frontispiece: Past Principals of Abbot

Ten Years at Abbot

Alumnae Association Annals

Thank You!

To the Alumnae Trustees

The Trustees of Abbot Academy

Education for One World

Commencement Program

Reunion Chairmen .

Alumnae Association

Abbot Clubs

In Memoriam

Class News

Record of War Service

Marguerite C. Hearsey
Jane B. Carpenter
Burton S. Flagg

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THE EDITORIAL BOARD

JANE B. CARPENTER, 1892, honorary

CONSTANCE PARKER CHIPMAN, 1906, Editor in Chief

marion r. Mcpherson, 191 8

ROBERTA KENDALL KENNEDY, 1929, ex officio

Published four times yearly, October, February, May, and September, by Abbot Acad-
emy, Andover, Massachusetts.

Entered as second class matter December 12, 1933, at the post office at Andover, Massa-
chusetts, under the act of August 24, 191 2.

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LAURA S. WATSON
1892-1898

KATHERINE R. KELSEY

Acting Principal
1909-1910— 1911-1912

Past Principals
of

Abbot
Academy

PHILENA McKEEN

1859-1892

EMILY A. ME:
1898-1911

BERTHA BAIL]

1912-1935

Ten Years at Abbot

MARGUERITE C. HEARSE Y, Ph.D
Principal since igj6

It lias been said, and often repeated,
that an institution is the lengthened
shadow of a man. Of Abbot we can say
that the shadow of Sarah Abbot has
lengthened through the years since
1828, when she gave to the School the
thousand dollars needed for the acre of
ground on which Abbot Hall was built.
It was she who, first of all, made the
School possible.

But with a school or college, I think
it would be at least as true to say that
the institution is the outward and
visible evidence, "the shadow," of the
love and loyalty of its graduates. As the
years have passed an increasing number
of old girls have not only built them-
selves into the very fabric of the School
but have been contributors to much of
the physical and material beauty of the
buildings and the grounds of the ex-
panding Abbot until today, with our
spacious campus and eight buildings, there is scarcely a place to which one
can turn which is not to some measure "the shadow" of alumnae generosity.

Quite aside from the generous gifts which the alumnae have made to the
School and will continue to make, it is of their enduring and appreciative
affection that I feel Abbot has the greatest reason to be proud. It has been
commented on frequently that the affection of men and women for their
preparatory schools is often stronger than for their colleges and this is not
unnatural, I think. However stimulating and significant the influences of
college years, it is earlier that the deepest impressions are made, and often the
most lasting friendships. And so one turns back to the formative period of
school days with the happiest of memories.

In my ten years at Abbot it has been a great pleasure to have the old
girls coming back in such a friendly way, knowing, apparently, that there
would always be a welcome for them here. It is delightful to have them come
quite often with a new young husband, to show Abbot to him and to show
him to Abbot! I always feel that behind such a pilgrimage there lies the
desire that the husband should see for himself and somehow understand the
enthusiasm of his wife for her school, so that he will have a real sharing with
her in a happy part of her past. Frequently old girls return for special tradi-
tional occasions and this is heartwarming, too. The Christmas Service brings
many, and Miss Friskin's recital, and Abbot's Birthday, not to mention
Commencement.

As one goes on into the increasing demands of life after school and col-
lege, one is caught in the responsibilities of family life and community activi-
ties, and perhaps it is difficult to leave home for a trip back to reunions, or
even to find time for regular attendance at local alumnae meetings. But I
have been impressed through my ten years with the numbers who do find a
way to come, with the wide span of years that is covered at the alumnae
meetings, and with the enthusiasm that seems to be shared by old and young
alike. I notice, too, that at different club meetings, aside from the group who
are able to attend quite regularly and carry the responsibility of the club,
always a few people appear who have never come before and they seem to be
delighted and refreshed with the fellowship they find. The spring is always
there, it seems, and inexhaustible in its supply, and its refreshment seems to
derive from something deeper than just a common memory of youthful
pleasure.

For me, personally, the welcome and support of the alumnae from the
beginning of my association with Abbot has been a constant source of joy
and inspiration. I cannot adequately express my gratitude for the way in
which from the alumnae banquet at Commencement in 1936 — even before
I took over my duties officially — to the latest meeting of the Boston Abbot
Club this spring, I have always been made to feel as much a part of the
alumnae as any Abbot girl! I value deeply this warm friendliness, and I am
especially aware now, as this Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the founding of the
Alumnae Association approaches, of the indispensable part the alumnae
have played in making Abbot what it is today, not only in bricks and mortar
and trees and gardens but even more significantly in character and in spirit.

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Jane B, Carpenter

Assistant Secretary seven years, from i<)i"„ Corresponding Secre-
tin v eleven years. General Secretary six years, resigned 1936; Jbundet
^Bulletin, 1923, and editor-in-chief until 193S,

The story begins like. I his. Miss
McKeen's sister, "Miss Phebe,"
keen-eyed, spirited, stimulating,
is said to have been the one who
first suggested and who fostered
the idea of an alumnae society.
Imagine her eagerly presenting
it in her clear way to the group of
curious and interested women
gathered on Anniversary Day in
[871. During the twelve years
since the Me. Keen sisters came,
over 600 girls had gone in and out
between the tall old pillars, and
before that 900 more. What pos-
sibilities in a plan for binding
these together to stand behind the
School and further its interests!
Then- had been conferences and
consultations of course and now
the time had come for action.
'Yes," they agreed, "include all
old scholars, graduates being so
few comparatively, and teachers as well."

A constitution was all ready for adoption, drawn up so carefully that
with few changes it lasted for many years. As for officers, what more natural
choice lor- president than Susan Jackson, daughter of a "founding father?"
It was her mother who started action among Andover women in 1854 to
provide furnishings for the first dormitory, Smith Hall. A good precedent
for- the Alumnae Society! Miss Jackson, calm, competent, decided, accus-
tomed to preside- in a classroom, served as chairman for six years.

Then there was Charlotte Swift, also daughter of a trustee, a gentle,
gracious little lady, who had qualified for the position as secretary of the
Society by doing what would now be called oflice work for Miss McKcen,
thereby familiarizing herself with the names of pupils. She soon bought two
great blank books, one lor the many membcrs-to-be of the Society, the other
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began on this difficult pioneer work, which later served as a basis for the first
general catalogue, published in time for use in arranging for the Semi-
centennial in 1879. Thus early was the necessity realized of getting and
keeping the lines of communication open. Miss Swift was in fact the first
Keeper of Alumnae Records, and a good one.

The most important provision of the Constitution was for the accumula-
tion of membership or initiation fees in an "Alumnae Fund," with the
income only for use. That meant, it was said, "not five dollars to be used and
exhausted, but the interest of five dollars forever." This plan required some
faith, for the School itself then owned but one invested fund — a $1000
scholarship foundation. The yearly interest was to be used for "means of
illustrating studies," and only after ten years of laboriously building up of
the principal could Miss McKeen, for the "Committee of Appropriation,"
announce with gratification and pride the first purchase, that of four mic-
roscopes for the botany classes. At every annual meeting thereafter, new and
diverse gifts were reported, often exhibited and always rejoiced over. Such
were art casts, models and apparatus, maps and books, books, books. One
woman said she could hardly wait to hear the treasurer's report. Not only
were departments of study thus benefited, but from that time on hardly a
big enterprise of any kind has been undertaken but the Association has had a
hand or at least a finger in it one way or another, initiating, completing, or
cooperating throughout.

In 1880, on the resignation of Miss Swift as corresponding secretary,
Agnes Park came into the picture, the daughter of Professor Park, the august
president for many years of the Board of Trustees. Tall and plain, she was
vivacious, vigorously intellectual and staunch in devotion to people and
causes. Presidents came and went, but for forty-two years, most of the time
as both secretary and treasurer, she was the mainspring of the organization.
After her death in 1922, in spontaneous and hearty recognition of this tireless
service, it was decided to use the proceeds of an elaborate bazaar just held by
Andover alumnae, her friends and neighbors, with other money allocated
from the Loyalty Endowment Fund, then in the making, to found an Agnes
Park Chair of History. Two appropriations from Association income brought
the amount to $2500.

President for thirteen years from 1877 was influential Abby Chapman
Chamberlain (later Mrs. Poor), who was repeatedly elected until ill health
forced her to resign. The death in 1880 of Miss Phebe McKeen, to whom the
Association was so greatly indebted in its beginnings, was sincerely mourned,
and a scholarship completed to perpetuate her name. A little later her
portrait, painted by Emily Means from likenesses and from memory, and
the one of Miss McKeen by Edgar Parker, were presented to the School in
recognition of the twenty-fifth anniversary of their coming to Andover.

A new custom was introduced in 1887. There was held in Boston the
first of a long series of social functions, still continuing. This one was pre-
liminary to the famous great Lawn Party given by the Association in June,

when "throngs of ladies and gentlemen" were received under the old oak
on "Davis Green," near Smith Hall. In the changes necessary to make room
for the Draper Hall-to-be, that great wooden building was very soon to be
moved to the site where the Infirmary now stands, and Abbot Hall (then
still known as the "Academy") was turned about from its original place
toward the middle of the present "Circle," facing School Street, to its present
somewhat less commanding position. Incidentally it may be mentioned that
the first direct effort toward the new building fund had been made by the
Association.

A vital period in the history was the eight years following 1890, while
the stately Miss Means was president. Already as teacher of painting, she had
known the School from the faculty point of view. Here she gained a full
sympathy and understanding of the possibilities and problems of the alumnae
body, which was of great advantage to her and to the organization when she
became principal in 1898. It was the Association that began the movement
for the Means Memorial Library, through the active work of Mary Byers
Smith and her committee. This was later merged with the building fund
campaign.

One high spot in dates was 1891. At the business meeting a plan for
supplementing the regular income to cover further needs was brought
forward by an enterprising young graduate, Daisy Douglass Macfarland,
who was thereupon appointed head of a committee to advertise it, obtain
pledges for yearly contributions and collect them. This "Auxiliary Fund"
was the precursor of the later Alumnae Income Fund, with the same aim —
to provide usable moneys as if they were dividends from an invested fund.
After eighteen years of arduous effort by the originator of the idea, there was
reversion to capital investment. Miss Maria Merrill managed to raise in
short order $5000 for a Lecture Fund, the income of which, though now
quite inadequate, sufficed for some years to secure excellent and sometimes
noted lecturers.

Interestingly enough, it was at the same meeting in 1 89 1 that discussion
arose about asking the trustees to include women on the Board, causing
"considerable stir," according to the Courant. Think of the general status of
women at that time, and decide if this was not one more indication of the
pioneering spirit. The trustees acquiesced, and elected two well-known and
well-qualified Association members, Frances Kimball Harlow, former
teacher, and Henrietta Learoyd Sperry, alumna, former teacher, and acting
principal. Later, Mary Donald Churchill, who was elected to succeed her
husband, and whose dignified little figure and long generous service are not
forgotten, was for a time the only woman member. Nearly twenty-five years
after the first innovation, in 191 5, the Board asked for a direct alumnae
representative to be nominated by ballot, and again in 1935 for a second
"alumnae trustee." What could be more direct evidence of the value in
which they were held? At present one half the Board are women.

An important event was the McKeen Breakfast, given by the Association
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in the winter of 1892, in warm tribute to the retiring principal and the
devoted service to which she had given almost half her life. This was a dis-
tinguished occasion, with the inimitable Professor Churchill, teacher of
elocution and trustee, as toastmaster, and many other felicitous speakers.
In June, the Association gave a second large lawn party to enable alumnae,
their families, and friends to pay their respects to Miss McKeen. One sig-
nificant by-product of the "Breakfast" should not be overlooked. The author
of the idea, Laura Wentworth Fowler (one of Miss McKeen's first graduating
class, i860), was impressed while promoting it with the opportunity for form-
ing an alumnae society in the vicinity of Boston, and presented the matter to
the Association. A committee was thereupon appointed, of which she was
chairman, "to work up the Abbot Club." As founded (in 1892), therefore,
albeit "entirely independent," it was virtually a daughter of the Association.
The second local club was formed in New York six years later. Since then
they have often joined forces with the older and larger group in furthering
great objectives.

An evidence of the keen interest taken in the future educational policy
of the School under the new administration was the discussion at the business
meeting of that year of 1892, which resulted in a vote — "Resolved: that we
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active life as of such importance that it should not be allowed to become in
any way subordinate to the work of preparing them for college." Such
expressions of alumnae opinion did not go unnoticed by the new principal,
Miss Watson, and her successors. Courses preparing for college were intro-
duced more and more, but thoughtful study of the matter was made at
different junctures by carefully selected faculty committees and a balance
sought between the general or "academic" program and that preparatory
for college. Of late years, students aiming toward further study have pre-
dominated.

In the story of these earlier years — the first quarter century, 1871-96 —
many details have purposely been given, both to recall the origin of tradi-
tions which still endure and are taken for granted, and to show how many
times the Association blazed a trail. It was a great advantage to have the
Fund under the watchful care of Mr. Draper, as School treasurer, with his
characteristic caution and scrupulous attention to detail. Mrs. Draper, too,
was an active force in many ways, at one time making the Homestead a
center for committee work on records.

Among distinctive personalities is noted Anne Means, cousin of the prin-
cipal, who was chairman for five years ( 1 899- 1 904) of the committee to raise
the large sum required to build McKeen Memorial Hall. Appreciative
minutes show how with her natural drollery and brisk courage she energized
her co-workers to meet many delays and difficulties, and finally achieved the
goal with the enviable record of a hundred per cent payment of pledges.
There was a crucial moment when the trustees had decided upon the plans,
and the builders were pressing to begin work so as to finish in time for the
observance of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the School in 1 904, and still
the goal was by no means reached. Then some one came to the rescue with
a loan of $10,000 without interest. It may not have been generally known
that this rescuer was Miss Emily Means, then principal, her only condition
being that the money be repaid as fast as it came in after the completion of
the requisite amount.

With the rejoicing and celebrating over, Anne Means and her aides,
apparently as a reward for well-doing, were reappointed to take care of the
supplementary business of providing science laboratories in Abbot Hall.
Generously the chairman, her sister, Mary Means, and Helen Smith Coburn,
took over the expense of the changes.

The gifted Anna Dawes, eloquent, witty, and of dignified presence, was
head of the Association for a double term, 1910-14. Her experience in Wash-
ington social life, as a senator's daughter, and in woman's club activities,
showed in her ease of manner and readiness of speech. In a transition period
covering a change in administration, she gave expression to warm apprecia-
tion of Miss Means and her regime, and with equal sincerity, at the inaugura-
tion exercises, pledged the allegiance of the alumnae to Miss Bailey and the
new era. This was important, for Miss Bailey's very coming was partly

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motivated by the thought of a strong body of Abbot women to be depended
on. To stimulate informed cooperation Miss Dawes initiated, in 191 2, the
plan of an Advisory or Visiting Committee, whereby a few alumnae at a
time, of different periods, could be shown the everyday life and workings of
the School in order to become more intelligent in recommending it. Those
who were able to accept the invitation showed a lively interest and an appre-
ciation of the welcoming hospitality, and sometimes, as had been requested,
made constructive criticisms. The committee functioned until 1939, when
it gave place to a more widely representative group — the Alumnae
Council. Two interesting meetings were held, in 1940 and 1941, then
further developments had to be postponed because of difficulties due to war
conditions.

The year 1 9 1 3 marks the beginning of a practical linkage between the
Association and the administration in the election, as assistant secretary, of
the Keeper of Alumnae Records (Jane Carpenter), a school-supported
officer. Mr. Flagg had with characteristic foresight early recognized the
importance of placing the record keeping machinery on a firm basis in order
to insure the frequent communications to alumnae which he recommended,

and had created this
position in 1909. It
was convenient now
for the Association to
have on the staff some-
one whose business it
was to be on hand any-
way for the School and
who could carry out
the suggestions of a
committee, headed by
Miss Kelsey, for pro-
moting reunions. Head-
quarters were arrang-
ed at Commencement
in McKeen Hall in
1 9 1 5 and thereafter,
where information and
hospitality were dis-
pensed. Publicity for
regulation five-year re-
unions, as in college,
was sent out, which
tended to increase at-
tendance. Then too
the custom was begun
of having the graduat-
Miss Carpenter and Mr. Flagg ing class join the As-

Alice C. Twitchell '86

sociation as a body, with a little ceremony
of induction at the June meeting. The five
dollar membership fees, patiently collected
in instalments by Miss Kelsey, made wel-
come additions to the invested Fund, as
the outgoing classes had come to be of
good size. The time was ripe for new
achievements.

The Association soon found opportunity
for action, in 1919-20, with the beginnings
of the movement to increase largely the
School endowment funds. These were
woefully inadequate. For one thing, the
need for providing better salaries for
teachers had for some years been recog-
nized and talked about and was becoming
urgent. In December, 1919, a circular
letter from Miss Bailey to all past students
proposed as a possibility and an oppor-
tunity a plan to raise by means of gifts and pledges during the course of the
coming ten years a Centennial Memorial Fund, later named the Loyalty
Endowment Fund, to be presented at the celebration marking the one-
hundredth anniversary of the opening of the School. The proposition was
discussed in conferences of trustees, faculty and alumnae, and was finally
turned over to the Association to carry through. The trustees gave their
solid backing by promising to cover overhead charges so that all moneys
contributed might be kept intact.

The moving spirit of the enterprise was Alice Twitchell, "Director,"
whose unflagging energy and sturdy confidence in the Tightness and im-
portance of the cause swept aside all obstacles and discouragements. A secret
of her wide influence lay in her intense interest in people, which made her
innumerable letters not only friendly and appreciative of even the smallest
gift but individual and personal. It was the same as she moved about the
country forming or reviving local Abbot Clubs from Maine through the
middle west. She remembered faces and names, stored up bits of news to pass
on to others, thought to ask about jobs and children and parents, sympa-
thized and rejoiced in turn. Her visits at the School brought her in close
touch not only with seniors, whom she thought of as prospective alumnae, but
with underclass girls and with faculty. A definite sum was not fixed, but
always as gifts reached a temporary goal, she triumphantly raised it a notch
higher, as they lift the bar in vaulting. More important to her than money
returns was the interest roused in the future well-being of the School.

A central committee, with an active chairman and rotating membership,
prepared or superintended publicity, thought up ingenious ways and means,
secured district leaders, helped with correspondence and otherwise supported
the Director. The chief projects originating in the committee were the Staf-

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fordshire Abbot plates, in charge of Annis Spencer Gilbert, and the 'Journal
of an Abbot Girl," consisting of extracts and drawings from the clever diary
of Harriet Ghapell Newcomb, class of 1876, which was published through
the efforts of Flora Mason. Various other souvenirs brought in lesser returns.
School birthday observances in May were introduced and included yearly
bazaars, conducted with characteristic zeal by students and patronized by
neighbors and friends. Among faculty undertakings were several distin-
guished concerts, and a cafeteria, managed in 1921 for Commencement
guests by Miss Mary Putnam.

A definite aid in the progress of the Fund was the Abbot Bulletin,

which appeared opportunely
in 1923. It was first conceived
by Mr. Flagg, decided upon
by a general conference, in-
cluding representatives of trus-
tees, faculty, and alumnae,
and sponsored by the trustees,
who nevertheless let it be pub-
lished under the name of the
Association and sent free to all
former students. However, the
Association did later make
appropriations toward its sup-
port until postal regulations
forbade. There was definite
demand for such an organ of
publicity. Calls for gifts were
going out. It was essential to
supplement these with direct
information about current developments at the School, explanations of
policies and pictures of everyday life — anything to make present conditions
live and real to the many who still thought of Abbot as remaining exactly
the same as when they were students ten, twenty, forty years before. The
Bulletin also gave opportunity to Association, club, and class leaders to
report and promote group activities and reunions. In 1932, by pressure of
alumnae public opinion, personal items were reluctantly transferred from
the Courant in order to reach all the constituency instead of the limited
number who subscribed to the older magazine. Most important indeed, and
worthy of all praise, has been the service rendered by the Courant in numerous
ways since its founding in 1873, on ly two years later than the Association
itself. In these early days of the Bulletin, Miss Bailey's sympathetic counsel
was invaluable. In fact, she was in all ways an unfailing source of confidence,
strength and courage during the long, slow growth of the Fund. She prepared
circular letters and leaflets, traveled widely, visiting and heartening alumnae
groups, stood behind School efforts, and made the home place a hospitable
center for working committees and individuals.

The Centennial Plate

Even a short time after the Fund was started, the unifying effects of
working together with a common purpose became apparent. From the
intensive work of regional committees and of clubs, old and new, came
addresses long unknown, and hence new opportunities for advance. Nothing
seemed too hard to the workers when somebody would say, "Glad to do
what I can" or "Use me wherever I can fit in best." An important step for-
ward was made possible when the School was able in 1927 to provide a room
in Abbot Hall where alumnae activities could be centered. The assistant
secretary had already been made corresponding secretary (1920), and as
duties broadened became, in 1 93 1 , general secretary. In these ways the
affiliation of School and Association was made still closer.

The concentration on the growing Loyalty Fund kept all eyes focused on
the approaching Centennial. For months in advance hardworking commit-
tees put their whole hearts into making the machinery run smoothly. The
excitements of the great occasion are still delightfully distinct in the minds of
those who attended — the hearty fellowship of the alumnae luncheon in the
big tent, with surprise gifts to individuals in recognition of noteworthy
service; the living pictures of successive periods ("The Years Between"),
flashing vivid memories to the thrilled beholders; and the emotional moment
when the colorful parade by classes completely filled the Circle, symbolizing
the ring of Abbot women round the globe. The culmination of the ten years
of arduous effort came in the dignified ceremony of presentation. At a signal
the many alumnae present rose while Alice Twitchell, modestly but with
deep feeling, passed over to Mr. Flagg the gift of $160,000.

Some method of continuing the good habit of annual giving came next
under consideration as a natural aftermath of the Fund arrangement. The
idea was promoted by Edith Dewey Jones, former Association president, who
had been the able executive secretary of the Central Centennial Committee,
and w r as carried to fulfilment after her death, under Annie Smart Angus as
president, in 1932, against the odds of a depression period. Membership in
the Association, instead of being contingent upon the payment of an "initia-
tion fee," was thrown open to all students on leaving the School. The "Alum-
nae Income Fund," a revival of an old scheme, was set up for voluntary
gifts, with a committee in charge and a faithful secretary-treasurer, Ruth
Childs Young. The first year, $1000 was thus raised, half of which was
allocated toward a music scholarship in memory of Mrs. Jones. Later grants
were for emergency tuitional aids and Association expenses usually gener-
ously borne by the School. In 1939, the Alumnae Fund was again modified,
this time to supplement the building campaign, and the limiting word
"Income" withdrawn. By the present plan, yearly Fund returns may be
given to the School either to be set aside as capital or used for immediate
needs. Unexpectedly substantial support has been received, the class fund
secretaries, as part of the new organization, furnishing material aid.

In those lean years of financial stringency just mentioned, Abbot was
glad of help in the increasing of enrolment. "Visiting Days" were introduced

in the spring of 1932, when the School held open house with exhibitions and
demonstrations of the lighter side of school life as well as the academic.
Alumnae within motoring distance cooperated heartily by bringing friends
with daughters who might become pupils. Constance Parker Chipman,
whose pronounced efficiency as Association president at the time of the Cen-
tennial, combined with her long familiarity with School interests through
family connections, had led to her election as trustee, was made field secre-
tary, and undertook the program of visiting Abbot Clubs in other parts of the
country. These groups responded helpfully by spreading the word in their
vicinities.

As time passed, careful study was made of ways to increase alumnae
attendance at Commencement. A Reunion Reorganization Committee,
working for several years from 1934, improved the machinery by preparing
a definite procedure for class chairmen. Alluring changes in 1935 were
Alumnae Day to Saturday, to suit the current week-end habit, alumnae
headquarters from McKeen Hall to the spacious and more convenient rooms
of the John-Esther Gallery, and an evening "banquet" instead of an informal
luncheon.

Twice something most unusual has happened in the way of fifty-year
reunions. In 1927 all surviving members of '77 were present, and in 1936 the
same was true of '86, both groups noted for strong class spirit. In recent years,
although war restrictions have necessarily limited social gatherings, class
groups have met in different centers, and the older and smaller classes have
greatly enjoyed reunions through the exchange of letters.

The Association was honored in 1929 by membership in the American
Alumni Council of colleges and secondary schools. This has brought valued
opportunities for Association representatives to attend conferences of alumni
secretaries at different colleges and hear practical discussions of problems and
techniques. The Association is eligible to three-point membership on the
strength of having a Bulletin, an Office, and a Fund.

The story now goes back to June, 1932. In tribute to Miss Kelsey and
Miss Mason on their retirement, a reception was given by the Association in
Davis Hall and the after-luncheon program enriched with a pretty ceremony,
when representatives of five-year periods covering their long service voiced
the affectionate appreciation of all. The linking of their names in the Kelsey-
Mason Sitting Room of the new Abbey House, announced a few months
before Miss Kelsey's death in 1939, was a satisfaction to everybody.

In November, 1935, a stunning blow fell on an unready Abbot world in
the news of Miss Bailey's death while she was on leave of absence. Words of
affection and respect from every one of her graduating classes were brought
together with characteristic skill by Miss Rebekah Chickering in a special
number of the Courant, issued shortly thereafter. Large numbers of alumnae
and friends gathered at the usual Boston meeting in February for a service
of "happy remembrance." The proposal for a memorial to Miss Bailey came

NEW WING WITH BAILEY HALL (The Dining Room)
MEANS MEMORIAL LIBRARY

originally from her first graduating class, 19 13, and was announced at the
annual business meeting in 1936. This was soon merged with a larger plan.

And now a door opened wide to the future. Miss Hearsey, as principal-
elect, addressing the alumnae at their banquet in June, 1936, expressed her
faith in the enduring qualities of the Abbot heritage and tradition and her
confidence that change need not be feared, since the future would be deter-
mined by the spirit and ideals of the past. With her fresh enthusiasm she
worked with the Trustees, facing problems which were crying out for solu-
tion. First of all, obviously, something must be done about the increasingly
crowded conditions in the library. It was decided, however, that this should
be considered, not as a separate proposition, but in relation to other needs,
and after much thought the Second Century Building Fund campaign was
launched. The firm of Tamblyn and Brown, of New York, engaged to direct
proceedings, established a busy office in lower Abbot Hall in the fall of 1937,
and set about finding new friends for Abbot and uniting all forces to work for
the cause. Alumnae committees worked under the important General Ex-
ecutive Committee. Everybody in the widespread Abbot family, it seemed,
was drawn into the plan to give money or time, tact, patience and per-
severance. Plaudits are due them all, officers and privates alike.

The immediate results of the campaign, in addition to the intangible
gains in morale, were, in brief, the gift of the Emily F. Abbey Dormitory, and
the remodeling of Draper Hall, completed for use in the fall of 1941 . The new
wing contains the long awaited Means Memorial Library with adequate
space for books and readers, its furnishings provided by the class of '87; the
enticing Rebekah Chickering Browsing Room; and above, the Social Room
and rooms for students. Connecting the new wing with the old is the beautiful
Bailey Dining Hall, its gracious proportions sufficing for increased numbers,
thus fulfiling Miss Bailey's strong hope that, even with a larger school, the
unity of the family might be preserved by this daily camaraderie.

The Alice Carter Twitchell Guest Room in Abbey House is another
fjtting Memorial. The last project of the old Alumnae Income Fund, in
1939, it brought a delighted response, classmates of '86 contributing generously
under the ever-active Mary Gorton Darling, former Association president.
Since Alice Twitchell doted on young alumnae, it is peculiarly appropriate
that they may now be made free to come back for field days and such great
occasions while they still have friends in school.

Among after-campaign developments was the merging of the special
Fund Office with the Alumnae Office. Just in time to bear the brunt of
responsibility in that hectic campaign year of 1937-38, Mrs. Chipman had
been appointed alumnae secretary by the School, and elected in due form' by
the Association as general secretary, to succeed Jane Carpenter, who held
both titles. In 1940, Marion McPherson, of recognized business ability, who
had been put in charge of Building Fund matters by the School, was made
associate secretary of the Alumnae Association and took over, as director, the
care of the new Second Century Alumnae Fund, which replaced the Alum-

nae Income Fund. Mrs. Chipman is editor of the Bulletin, and other
duties are divided between them. One of the yearly events is the coffee
party for seniors, instituted by Mrs. Chipman, with her natural sense of the
value of getting people together socially and her gift for hospitality. The
girls are always interested and surprised to see the addressograph, the stencil
machine, the files and the record procedures, and are bound to get a little
idea of what the Alumnae Office means. Who knows what bold spirits among
them may be pioneers in thought or action, in their turn one of these days?

Thus the review of the years, hurrying over fresh and familiar events,
comes down to the present. At times the text has run ahead to follow a trail
to its end, then doubled back to go on with the account. There have been
many omissions: like detailed mention of the work of the later Association
presidents, each of whom took over some current problem or issue to solve
or carry through; and recognition of the successive assistants in the Alumnae
Office, whose conscientious and competent handling of the daily routine
business has been the foundation on which the whole communications
system has rested. Between the lines also must be read grateful acknowledg-
ment of numberless workers behind the scenes, nowhere named in the records,
but essential to the success of every production before the footlights.

This is the end of a chapter in the history, but it is the beginning of
another. It is not a time for complacency, but for sober rejoicing and vigorous
expectation of opportunities yet to come.

Thank You!

BURTON S. FLAGG
Treasurer since 1906

My dear friends, the "Alumnae of Abbot":
You are "backing the line" while the school
actively pursues its mission in these modern
times. You have always reinforced its work and
purposes to a most unusual degree and have
responded to the school's call with rare spirit.
Children and grandchildren of alumnae appear
each year among the registrants at Abbot.
Accordingly, I rejoice with all Abbot women
who look back with pride upon its past, as well
as look forward with great hope to its future
and, as Treasurer, extend my deep appreciation
for your loyalties expressed through these years
in so many tangible and intangible ways. These
have assisted our faculty and trustees to function
more and more effectively.

The wholehearted endorsement of The
Bulletin delighted me. Through its columns the alumnae "hear from home"
frequently and intimately. It stands today as one of the best issues of its type
among schools for girls.

The "Centennial Fund for Teaching" developed through a long ten-
year pull under the devoted and dynamic leadership of Miss Alice C. Twitch-
ell, Abbot '86, stands as a monument to alumnae loyalty and belief in the
fundamental aspects of "Abbot life." It has brought Abbot women closer
together. In the year 1929 the Trustees voted that this fund "be regarded as
the foundation for a general program of development . . . designed to meet
the more vital needs of the institution and includes, increase in teaching,
scholarship and other endowments, the improvement of present dormitory
and dining room facilities, the erection, equipment and endowment of the
'Means Memorial Library'." All of these objectives are in process as gifts
permit and are indicative of an able, alert and devoted body of alumnae who
live up to the highest traditions of their training and responsibilities.

None of us can look back
Association three-quarters of a
singleminded and unwearying
Abbot 1 858, and our own Jane
patriotic in their administration
years and of their personalities
Commencements and alumnae
their achievements.

with softened vision to the first days of the
century ago, but we do think today of the

interest of women like Miss Agnes Park,
Carpenter, Abbot 1892, thorough, loyal and
of the Secretary's tasks over a long spread of
so delightfully associated with many, many

gatherings. We delight to honor them for

Are we at the "home base" acquainting you sufficiently with our needs
so that you may be as conversant as possible with the condition of the school?

This close interest means much in happiness, encouragement and stimulus
to those who carry on its work, for the school grows in power by judicious
re-examination and re-appraisal of its real mission, methods and means.
How are we doing?

Abbot has loyal alumnae, a competent teaching force, excellent student
attitudes, a 1 1 8 year record, and a high sense of her mission. I foresee this
strong bond, already seasoned, capable of carrying the Association over
another seventy-five years.

Abbot's call is for the best! May she realize the full symbolism of her
work!

^£dL^Uo~^J&r&-

The Alumnae Trustees, elected to the Board of Trustees, on nomination
by the Alumnae Association, bring to the Board not only their personal
services and counsel but through them come the opinions of the former stu-
dents whom they represent.

Their membership emphasizes the importance which the alumnae play
in the Academy life and development — a link between "Abbot girls" and
Abbot the institution.

The Board is glad of this opportunity to acknowledge its indebtedness
to all Alumnae Trustees past and present.

ALUMNAE TRUSTEES

* Grace Garleton Dryden '86
Anna Nettleton Miles '93
Dorothy Bigelow Arms ' 1 1
Mira B. Wilson 'io
Winona Algie '00
Dorothy Taylor '08
Polly Bullard Holden '24
Margaret Van Voorhis ' 1 8
Helen Allen Henry '32

1 9 16-192 1
1921-1926
1926-193 1

I 93 I " I 93 6

I 93 6 " I 942

1 939- 1 945
1 942- 1 948

1 945- 1 95 l

E. Barton Ghapin, President
Irving Southworth, Clerk

^Deceased

The Trustees of Abbot Academy

Edward Barton Chapin . A.B. . President
Andover

Irving Southworth. A.B.. Clerk
Andover

Burton Sanderson Flagg. A.B.. Treasurer
Andoi

Marguerite Capen Hearsey, Ph.D.. Principal
Andover

George E. Abbot. A.B.
Brookline

Constance Parker Chipman
Andover

Mrs. Wilbur K.Jordan
Cambridge

The Rev. Sidney Lovett, D.D.

Chaplain of Yale University

Margaret Shove Morriss. Ph.D.. LL.D.

Dean of Pembroke College in Brown
University

c j . : c . F:: ;r. Ss.'/rve: . A.B.. M.B.A.
Ando'

Stoddard M. Stevens. Jr.
Short HOb. X. J.

Mira Bigelow Wilson. B.D.. M.A.

Principal of Xorthfield School for Girls

ALUMNAE TRUSTEES

Helen Allen Henry, A.B.
Weston

Margaret Van Voorbis
New York City

Education for One World

Miss Hearsey. president of the National Association of Principals of
Schools for Girls, went to Rve. New York, on March 5 to preside over the
1946 meetings of the organization. The meetings were held in the West-
chester Country Club, and were attended by a full membership which
included representatives from not only distant localities in the United States,
but a number from neighboring communities as well. Canada and Hawaii
among them.

The topic for discussion chosen by Miss Hearsey was ''Education for One
World." An unusually interesting list of speakers accepted the invitation to
take part in the meeting's. There were distinguished educators from Great
Britain. China and other countries as well as outstanding leaders in educa-
tional circles in this country.

For reasons growing out of war conditions, the association had heretofore
suspended its customary meetings, and this gathering was therefore the first
to be held for several years. The enthusiastic attendance, the vigorous dis-
cussion on a vital topic, and the excellence with which Miss Hearsey con-
ducted the sessions together resulted in this having been one of the most
rewarding gatherings in the historv of the organization.

The One Hundred and Seventeenth Commencement

of Abbot Academy

Friday, June seventh
RALLY NIGHT 7.30 o'clock

Saturday, June eighth
ALUMNAE DAY

Program

Annual Meeting of the Abbot Alumnae Association in Abbot

Hall at 1 1.30 a.m.
Seventy-fifth anniversary luncheon in the John-Esther Art

Gallery at 1.00 p.m.

Speaker: Marguerite C. Hearsey

Class reunion reports

Presentation of "Madame Abbot Returns," dramatic poem by

Helen Danforth Prudden 191 3

Draper Dramatics: 'The Taming of the Shrew," Davis Hall

at 8.00 p.m. _, .

Sunday, June ninth

Baccalaureate at South Church, 10.45 a - m -

Sermon by: The Very Reverend Donald J. Campbell, S.T.M.

Dean, Christ Church Cathedral, Springfield, Mass.
Commencement Concert, Davis Hall at 7.30 p.m.

Monday, June tenth

Graduation Exercises at South Church, 10.00 a.m.
Address by: The Rev. Vivian T. Pomeroy, D.D., Milton

GLASS REUNION CHAIRMEN

1886 Harriet Raymond Brosnan (Mrs. John B.), 70 Arlington St., Haverhill
1 89 1 Annie Bull Hardenbergh (Mrs. Daniel B.), 7 Orchard St., Middletown,

N. Y.
1896 Lillian Franklin Carr (Mrs. Ernest L.), 34 Russell St., Milton
1 90 1 Evelyn Carter Giles (Mrs. Howard), South Woodstock, Vt.
1906 Ruth Adams Downer (Mrs. Guy W.), 72 Mechanic St., Shelburne Falls
191 1 Dorothy Bigelow Arms (Mrs. Clarence), 12 Beechmont St., Worcester
1916 Esther Kilton, 112 Charles St., Boston 14; Eugenia Parker, Denmark,

Maine
1 92 1 Marion Kimball Bigelow (Mrs. David H.), 326 Highland St., West

Newton
1926 M. Alice Perry, 175 Florida St., Springfield
1 93 1 Doris Allen Carroll (Mrs. Edward R.), 31 High St., Marblehead
1936 Anne Russell Loring (Mrs. Malcolm B.), 2 W. Maple Ave., Moores-

town, N. J.
1941 Sue Long Kremer (Mrs. Frederick S.), 1 172 Park Ave., New York City

28, N. Y.
1945 Hilary Paterson, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Alumnae Association, 1871-1946

It is indeed an honor to be your president on this
occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the
Alumnae Association.

As the years go by and we become more mature,
we appreciate to an increasing extent what Abbot
has meant to us. Its solid foundation has given us
the courage and stamina that is so valuable in our
adult lives. To be an Abbot graduate is a rare
privilege and one we shall cherish all our years.

As we now emerge from an unprecedented and
disastrous phase in history and stand on the brink
of a new era we find that women have risen ever
more valiant to find their own place in many new
and wider fields, some even thought impossible
heretofore; so it is for these ends that education is
vastly more important today for the purpose of
strengthening and broadening our youth of tomorrow.

Let us go on with new hope and realization for the undaunted future

Roberta Kendall Kennedy, President

Roberta Kendall Kennedy
President of the Alumnae
Association, 1942 to 1946

Past Presidents of the Abbot Alumnae Association

1871 * Susanna E. Jackson I9 X 6

1877 *Abby Chapman Ghamberlin 191 8

1890 * Emily A. Means 1922

1898 *Emma Meacham Davis 1926

1906 * Catherine Buss Tyer r 93°

1908 * Ellen Chamberlin Blair x 934

1 910 *Anna L. Dawes x 938

1 914 * Henrietta Learoyd Sperry x 942

*Deceased

Julia E. Twichell
Mary Gorton Darling
* Edith Dewey Jones
Constance Parker Chipman
Annie Smart Angus
Norma Allen Haine
Mildred Frost Eaton
Roberta Kendall Kennedy

Alumnae Day Committees

Nominating Committee: Helen Abbott Allen, chairman; Annie Smart
Angus, Elizabeth Boyce.

75th Anniversary Luncheon Reservations: Marion Mellor Dean, chairman;
Helen Hamblet Dyer, Cornelia Sargent Battershill.

Flowers: Ruth Clark Weaver, chairman; Elizabeth Weaver Hockmeyer,
Phyllis Brooks Stevens.

Abbot Club:

Abbot Clubs deserve the full support of all alumnae in the centers in which they
are organized. A few are working for many. Successful meetings have been held
by the Boston, New York and Old Colony Clubs. It is hoped that every club
listed will hold a meeting during this coming year, as a special tribute to the

yjth anniversary of the Alumnae Association

BOSTON (1892): President, Mrs. Gwen-
dolyn Bloomfield Tillson '22; Vice-presidents,
Mrs. Virginia Gay d'Elseaux '28; Mrs.
Elizabeth Sage Batchelder '33; Recording
Secretary, Mrs. Louise Risley Floyd '37;
Corresponding Secretary, Nancy Kelley '41;
Treasurer, Mrs. Margaret Nay Gramkow '27;
Auditor, Mrs. Mary Piper Sears '28; Program
Chairman, Mrs. Faith Chipman Parker '31;
Directors 1 946-1 948, Barbara Goss '22, Mary
Howard '40, Jacqueline Proctor de Brun '40.
Directors 1945- 1947, Mrs. Lydia Kunkel
Eldredge '21, Miss Irene Atwood '18, Mrs.
Ruth Baker Johnson '30.

The annual spring meeting was held on
Saturday, April 13, at the College Club,
Boston. Following the social period with
dessert-coffee, an interesting talk, "Preview
of Post War Fashion," was given by Miss
Helen I. Whittet, of the Chamberlain
School of Retailing.

CHICAGO (1921): President, Mrs. J.
Allen Lind (Mary Simpson); Secretary, Mrs.
Edith Bullen Creeden, 461 Hill Rd., Win-
netka; Treasurer, Mrs. Margaret Hall Walker.

CONNECTICUT (1923): President, Miss
Sara Peck, 20 Fairview Ter., Derby; Secre-
tary- Treasurer, Mrs. Virginia Lawton Cheney,
36 Morse St., Hamden.

DETROIT (1922): President, Mrs. Thom-
as Nalle (Harriet Balfe) ,1211 Willow Lane,
Birmingham.

MAINE, EASTERN (1926): President,
Miss Eleanor Bird, 250 Broadway, Rockland;
Vice-president, Mrs. Frances McDougall Mc-

Loon; Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. Annetta
Richards Bryant, 64 State St., Brewer.

A meeting is being planned for early
summer.

MAINE, WESTERN (1922): President,
Mrs. Harold Robinson (Harriette Woolver-
ton), Cape Elizabeth; Treasurer, Mrs. Char-
lotte Baldwin Frohock.

NEW YORK (1898): President, Miss
Gertrude Holbrook '25; Vice-presidents, Mrs.
Laura Scudder Williamson '24, Mrs. Helga
Lundin Buttrick '23; Recording Secretary, Mrs.
Grace Leyser Boynton '19; Corresponding
Secretary, Mrs. Jane Owsley Warwick '30;
Treasurer, Mrs. Ruth Cann Baker '31;
Directors, Mrs. Helen Bradley Hodgkinson
'19, Mrs. Eunice Meigs Pease '21, Mrs.
Ethel Thompson James '24; Auditor, Mrs.
Despina Plakias Messinesi '29.

OHIO, CENTRAL (1921): President,
Secretary, Mrs. Paul Meek (Louise Norpell),
5600 Meek Rd., Worthington.

OHIO, CLEVELAND (1927): President,
Mrs. George Worthington (Madeleine Fiske),
Chesterland, Ohio.

OLD COLONY (1924): President, Mrs.
Ruth Murray Moore; Secretary-Treasurer,
Mrs. Martha Wind Finger.

PITTSBURGH (1921): President, Mrs.
George H. Jackson (Gertrude Miller), But-
ler, Pa.; Secretary, Mrs. Joseph M. Browne
(Eliza Atwell), 529 Pine Rd., Sewickley.

In Memoriam

1875

Helen Fairbank, Mrs. George R. R. Riv-
ers, died on October 19, 1945, in Santa
Barbara, Calif.

1876

Ida Nims Butterfield died on November

21, 1945-

1877

Harriet E. Cobb died on February 13, in
Brookline.

1879

Jeannette M. Hart died on March 5.
L. Alice Pike, Mrs. Horace F. Buxton,
died on October 6, 1945.

1883

Lucia Watkins, wife of the late Edwin A.

Bayley, died on February 13, in Lexington.
She was the mother of Marian Bayley Buchan-
an 1913, and grandmother of Lucia Bayley
Buchanan 1939.

1888

Caroline Zelie, widow of James N. Stanley
died on January 9, 1945.

1892

Josephine Crocker, Mrs. Jean de Teplow,
sister of * Catherine Crocker 1887, died in
Wellesley, in 1945.

1893

Bertha Johnson, wife of Harold M. Ren-
der, died on September 19, 1945, in Worces-
ter.

Class News

Alumnae come all ages
From ninety to eighteen!
All news from each is vital
And on you all we lean.

To make your class notes peppy
And readers pages turn —
Please send your news this summer,
From each you much may learn!

1871
Seventy-fifth Anniversary

Helen E. Melendy sends her greetings over
a span of seventy-five years. "I entered
Abbot in 1869 with the class of '71 . I did not
graduate as I was compelled to leave Abbot
because of poor health. I am ninety-three
years of age and as my eyesight is failing I
am unable to read or write, but I send my
very best wishes."

1874-1890

Class Funds Secretary: Mrs. Ernest C.
Young (Ruth Childs), 6 Emerson St.,
Brookline.

1876
Seventieth Anniversary
Dear Class of '76: I imagine I am the last
leaf on the tree of 1876, that grew in Andover

and how almost daily those old time im-
pressions have borne definite blossom and
fruit in our lives and actions.

How often a swift mental glimpse of Abbot
Hall, Old Oak, or Maple Walk have in-
fluenced a daily task; how grateful we are for
those teachings!

I am proud to have my granddaughter
enter soon, following two daughters of 1910
and 191 7. May years to come repeat the
many good old time effects of this school ever

faithfully. Harriet Chapell Newcomb

1885

In a recent letter to Miss Hearsey, Fannie
Hardy Eckstorm draws convincing con-
clusions on the purpose of education. We
quote:

"I believe there was much in the older
curricula, which insisted upon thoroughness
in a few fundamentals before allowing much
individual choice. Yet a certain amount of
freedom is essential to securing best use of
special talents. And in certain very important
studies, like history, it is hard to get the
rigid drill needed in grinding a good tool.
It is hard also in English, though a good
teacher will demand precision and secure
good results. Abbot had an excellent course
of study even in my day, when science was

There is real joy in giving and .

only beginning to be taught by anything
except text-books committed to memory.
Undoubtedly it is much better now, and will
give equivalents to the classics in many
points. However, to me the real education
begins when the student, guided by an expert,
begins to pull on the bit and take his own
pace, waste a little time on the things he can
do best and plan to prepare for some creative
task.

"Education is like food, only what you can
digest does you any good. Therefore no
system can be devised which will work
equally well for all pupils; but what none
can escape is the cultural, social background
shared by all; and the spiritual uplift which
many will derive from the feast offered is the
real reward of the faithful teacher. Instead
of telling you what it might be good to do,
is it not better to tell you what Abbot of

long ago did for me, even though I was but
a bird of passage and not a graduate? With-
out it I should probably have had no Greek!
And my Greek has done me a great deal of
good by not using it! Like food, it was turned
into strength in other directions; and with
that strength, I have done my work in the
world."

1886
Sixtieth Reunion

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Frank W.
Darling (Mary Gorton), Hampton, Virginia.

Reunion chairman, Harriet Raymond
Brosnan, 70 Arlington St., Haverhill.

1891
Fifty-fifth Reunion

Class of '91 will meet at the Alumnae
Luncheon on June 8. Plan to be present.

Annie Bull Hardenbergh

Reunion chairman
Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Daniel B.
Hardenbergh (Annie Bull), 7 Orchard St.,
Middletown, N. Y.

1892

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Jane B. Car-
penter, School St., Andover.

Mrs. Harry R.
4 Rock Ledge

MARY GORTON DARLING

The Spirit of '86

1893

Class Fund Secretary:
Miles (Anna Nettleton),
Drive, Stamford, Conn.

Judge Nelson P. Brown, husband of
Margaret Tucker, died on April 10, in Bos-
ton. Judge Brown was acting chief justice
of the Mass. Superior Court and one of the
state's most prominent legal authorities.

1894

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Doremus
Scudder (Mabel Bosher), 133 West Ninth
St., Claremont, Cal.

Mrs. Scudder is spending the next six
months with friends in the Hawaiian Islands.

1896
Fiftieth Reunion

Reunion Chairman: Lillian Franklin Carr,
34 Russell St., Milton, who reports that six
members of '96 expect to attend reunion.

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Henry V.
Conant (Ruth Loring), 914 High St., Ded-
ham.

May Toung Duffy's grandson is attending
Phillips Academy, and her younger son

. . . here is an opportunity to prove it.

THE CLASS OF 1896

George has returned from India where he
served with the Engineers.

1897

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Alexander
Bunce (Gertrude Ware), R.F.D. 1, Rock-
ville, Conn.

1898

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Robert W.
Dunbar (Selina Cook), 3 Elk St., Apt. 7,
Albany, N. Y.

1899

Frederick W. Hill, husband of Maboth
Wolfenden, died on March 7, in Attleboro.

1900

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Arthur P.
Spear (Grace Chapman), 156 Winchester
St., Brookline.

1901
Forty-fifth Reunion
Reunion chairman: Evelyn Carter Giles,
South Woodstock, Vt.

Delight Hall Gage is tutoring in Remedial

Reading and in Mathematics at her home in
Andover.

Margaret Reed Stuttiford is anticipating
her first class reunion in many years. She
has recently retired from many years of
teaching at the Kimberly School in Mont-
clair, N. J., where she was head of the pri-
mary department.

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Helen Hale,
86 Knox St., Lawrence.

1902

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Hezekiah
Poore (Mildred Mooers), 37 Ames St.,
Lawrence.

1904

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. William O.
Pettit (Elizabeth Winsor), 186 Livingston
Ave., Brunswick, N.J.

1905

Mrs. John N. Cole, mother of Elizabeth
Cole, died in Andover on February 9.

Katherine Woods writes, "I am now
doing the translation of Consuelo de Saint-

Your gift to the Abbot Second Century Alumnae Fund

Exupery's book, Oppede, it will have a
different title in English, and (following my
translation of Antoinne de Saint-Exupery's
lovely allegory, The Little Prince), I hope to
go on with work of this sort. In fact I have
given up editorial work, and I hope to have
a book of my own ready for 1947 publica-
tion."

1906
Fortieth Reunion

Reunion Chairman: Ruth Adams Downer,
72 Mechanic St., Shelburne Falls, Mass.

Alice Barbour Merrill says she hopes to
attend reunion. Her daughter Martha
Merrill Shattuck has a son Bradlee Merrill
Shattuck, born August 20, 1945.

Helen Ellis Rice will report six grand-
children at reunion, "four girls and two boys
ranging in age from six years to ten months
and divided among four daughters. Two of
the granddaughters are children of Helen
Rice Wiles, Abbot '33."

Molly Jordan Goodrich's daughter Joan
Goodrich Lang has a son Frederic Jordan
Lang, born February 7.

George W. Mackintire, father of Persis
Mackintire Carr died March 10 in Worcester.

Maud Sprague hopes to be at the Alumnae
Luncheon.

1906 expects to have ten members present
at their reunion.

1907

Earl J. Walker, husband of Margaret Hall,
died on February 5, in Evanston, 111.

1910

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Myron G.
Darby (Ethel Reigeluth), 110 Tanglewylde
Ave., Bronxville, N. Y.

1911
Thirty-fifth Reunion

Reunion Chairman: Dorothy Bigelow
Arms, 12 Beechmont St., Worcester.

You have each received a personal letter
urging thought about returning for our
reunion! Five replies have been received so
far. Where is yours? I hound the postman!

Biggie

Maud Gutterson Green says she will work
on Rhoda and return with her for Com-
mencement. Corinne says she hopes she can
come and Rebecca says she will definitely

be there. Also Jessie Jones, Margaret Cope-
land, and Edith Donald.

Charlotte Gowing Cooper is now head
Occupational Therapist at the Veterans
Administration Hospital at Nashville, Tenn.

Frances Pray is working from 4 a.m. to
7 p.m. at the Lynn Hospital, but will come
to reunion.

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Douglas
Donald (Edith Johnson), 8 Carisbrooke St.,
Andover.

1912

Marion Willis Davidson lives at Sheffield,
Mass. Her youngest boy is in the Navy,
oldest is in the Army Air Force, "Bob" has
seen service in the Canadian R.A.F., and
another is an army Lt. She lost her only
daughter.

1913

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Margaret
Wilkins, 279 N. Euclid Ave., Pasadena, Cal.

Helen Danforth Prudden's son Lt. (jg)
Peter D. Prudden was married to Betsy
Goodwin Pritchard, January 26.

Mary Erving Lindsay announces the
arrival of a grandson, John Walker Lindsay,
born on January 6, to her son, Capt. John
Abbott Lindsay. Capt. Lindsay is studying
Chinese at the University of Cal.

1915

Mattie Larrabee Whittemore rejoices over a
new granddaughter Jane Booth Fellows,
born to Carol Whittemore Fellows '38, on
March 26.

Your correct address is your life line to
Abbot. Keep the Alumnae Office informed!

1916
Thirtieth Reunion

Reunion chairmen: Esther Kilton, 112
Charles St., Boston 14; Eugenia Parker,
Denmark, Maine.

A great time is being planned for those
who attend reunion, but only a few have
replied to notices. Write the chairmen at
once.

Charlotte Eaton is Director of Volunteer
Nurses at the Providence Lying-in Hospital.
She plans to attend reunion.

Marjorie Freeman Heck reports her 19 year-

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during this 75th Anniversary Celebration

old son is still in the Air Service stationed in
Naples.

Dorothy Higgins Rand is boasting of a
"grandson with red hair, will have another
by June!"

Ruth Laton Greesy's husband, Brig. Gen.
Creesy has taken command of the Marine
Corps Depot of Supplies at San Francisco.

Dorothy Gilbert Bellows is proud of her
daughter Barbara's work as a club Director
of the Red Gross at the Tulln Air Base near
Vienna. Her son James who was a Fighter
Pilot in the Pacific is out of service and back
in college.

Frances Moses Schubert writes from Rock-
ville Center, N. Y., "Our twenty-three-year-
old son is still in service in Texas, after six
months in Germany during the war as a
corporal in the army. Our twenty-one-year-
old son is now studying electrical engineering
at Cornell University, after serving twenty
months in England, France and Germany
as a sergeant in the Signal Corps with the
9th Air Force. Have a grand time celebrat-
ing our 30th, I'll be thinking of you all and
wishing I was there."

Katharine Odell Randall's son, H. Harri-
son Randall II, returned in January from
two years' service overseas in the Normandy
and European campaigns, and has now re-
entered Bowdoin College.

Dorothy Pillsbury Bartlett writes of en-
joying a grandson, and her anticipation of
reunion.

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. James E.
Downs (Laura Cheever), Bancroft Rd.,
Andover.

Time to enter that daughter in Abbot for
1947 and 1948!

1917

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Oliver D.
Wescott (Dorothy Small), 84 Main St.,
Nantucket.

Married: Dorothy Baxter Reynolds to
Joseph Singerly Lare, April 2.

Esther Davis Smith reports her sons all
safely out of the service. "Our son Andrew,
was a corporal after five years of service;
David, a Lt. Comdr. after four years, and
Ensign Philip, a Navy combat Pilot of three
years. The last two have returned to Wil-

liams College. Esther (aff. .'44) is a student
nurse at the Presbyterian Hospital School of
Nursing, in New York City.

Mary Shipman Mian's book, "My Country-
in-Law," reminiscences of her life in Creuse
in France, has just been published.

1918

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. George J.
Cutler (Velma Rowell), 45 Eliot St., Jamaica
Plain.

Frank W. Atwood, father of Irene At-
wood, died on March 5, in Pasadena, Cal.

1919

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Grace L.
Boynton (Grace Leyser), 30 Engle St.,
Tenafly, N. J.

1920

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Beverly R.
Hubbard (Muriel Moxley), 172 Putnam
Ave., Hamden, Conn.

Paula Miller Patrick's oldest son is attend-
ing Deerfield Academy. Her husband has
returned from Europe and is out of the
army, but remains a reserve officer.

1921
Twenty-fifth Reunion

A Twenty-fifth reunion comes only once
in a life-time! Fifteen are definitely coming.
Don't miss our reunion supper on June 8,
following the big luncheon. Please write to
the chairman if you are planning to come.
Marion Kimball Bigelow,
326 Highland St.,

West Newton

Helen Roser is assistant executive secretary
of the American Nurses' Association Pro-
fessional Counseling and Placement Service,
which is an educational project to improve
the quality and quantity of nursing service
throughout the country, and to improve
personnel practices in nursing.

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. David H.
Bigelow (Marion Kimball), 326 Highland
St., West Newton.

1922

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. A. Evans Kep-
hart (Ruth Hill), 23 Lyme Rd., Hanover,
N. H.

Juliet Haskell Carrington sends news from
Washington of her family and work. Her

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will be devoted to scholarships

nineteen year-old daughter is a sophomore
at Middlebury College, and son, seventeen,
is in his last year at St. Albans School in
Washington. She has a degree B.S. in Agri-
culture with entomology major. She is now
a marketing specialist with the U.S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture, working particularly
on marketing agreement programs for citrus
fruits.

1928

1923

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Sterling Dow
(Elizabeth Flagg), 36 Holden St., Cam-
bridge.

1924

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. A. John
Holden (Polly Bullard), 39 No. Pleasant St.,
Middlebury, Vt.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Myron W. Roberts
(Olive Mitchell) a daughter, Virginia
Adams, February 12. This is the fifth girl in
the family.

1925

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. George B.
Beveridge (Charlotte Hanna), Sanfordtown
Rd., Redding, Conn.

1926
Twentieth Reunion

Hope to see you all at our 20th reunion
on June 8. Plan to meet at the annual meet-
ing and luncheon, and to have supper with
the school. Be sure that you have sent in your
reservations, so we may all sit together.
M. Alice Perry,
Reunion Chairman
175 Florida St., Springfield

Jane Hovey plans to return from a winter
in California in time to attend reunion.

Florence MacDougall Ranny is president
of the White School P.T. A. in Springfield.

Ruth Katzmann Pope returned to this
country last year after four years internment
in Germany with her son. She lives now with
her father in Hyde Park.

Patricia Goodwillie Blanchard sends her
regrets that she cannot attend reunion. She
has a busy life with three children, David,
nine; Joan, seven; and Peter, six. Her hus-
band is rector of the Episcopal Church in
Columbia, Mo.

1927

Married: Aylmer Stantial to James A.
Kempton on March 16.

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Class Fund Secretary: Miss Emily Sloper,
56 Russell St., New Britain, Conn.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. John J. Parker
(Frances Gould) a third child and first son,
John Jackson 3rd, December 21, 1945.

1929

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Charles O. Black
(Louise Hollis) a daughter, Louise, March 7.

Born to: Lt. and Mrs. Henry D. Tiffany
Jr. (Cleone Place) a daughter, Cleone Gor-
don, March 20.

1930

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Jack R. War-
wick (Mary Jane Owsley), 26 Ledgewood
Rd., Bronxville, N. Y.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Leidy
(Kathryn Dutton) a son, Thomas Dutton,
February 23.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. James L. Sullivan
(Frances Sullivan) a daughter, Nancy Eliza-
beth, October 13, 1945.

Married: Elizabeth Walworth to Lt.
Robert Ross, July 11, 1942. She would be
"glad to welcome any Abbot friends to our
first peace-time abode at 5 Crawford St.,
Cambridge."

When you have found that house or apart-
ment notify the Alumnae Office at once.

1931
Fifteenth Reunion

There is still time to make plans for re-
union! We want the class there one hundred
per cent, if not in person, in spirit, so if you
can not be with us, won't you write us a
note. Many of the girls are planning to come
back. Wouldn't you like to see Peg and
Faith, Abby and Marcia, Ruth Cann Baker
with her grown-up daughter, Mary Bacon
and Emily Bullock? Emily is planning a
get-together at her home.

It's a date for June Eighth!

Doris Allen Carroll,
Reunion Chairman
31 High St., Marblehead

Hoping also to be present at reunion are
Barbara Graham Holland, Mary Henderson
Lee, and Marcia Rudd Kiel. Barbara writes,
"We are civilians again and expect to locate

for Abbot Alumnae Daughters.

in Lansing, Mich., whenever we can find a
house."

Mary Henderson Lee has two daughters
Nancy Elizabeth, three, and Barbara Ann,
born June 18, 1945.

Nancy Carr Holmes' husband has left for
duty in Japan, where she expects to join him
later. She is staying for the present with her
parents in Bridgewater.

Constance Chamberlaine Harris is moving
to Charlottesville, Va., her husband being
now out of the service. She has a daughter
Constance Susan, two years old.

Peggy O'Leary White hopes to come.

Frances Scudder Glisson is living in At-
lanta, Ga., where her husband is specializing
in Obstetrics and Gynecology. They have
two sons, Charles Stedman Glisson III, four
years, and John Scudder just three years old.

Janet Simon Smith wrote doubtfully of
coming but may be urged.

Gertrud Van Peursem Bell writes that
present and anticipated family responsibil-
ities will keep her at home. Her husband
is with General Electric in Schenectady, and
her home in Ballston Lake, N. Y.

Class Fund Secretry: Mrs. Francis Hol-
land (Barbara Graham), 218 West Marion
Rd., South Bend, Ind.

1932

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Dorothy
Richardson, Boston Rd., Billerica.

Engaged: Marietta Marshall to Dr. John
A. Dudis.

1934

Anne Place Mason is living in New Canaan,
Conn., after living "for the most part of
seven years on ranches in Texas and Wy-
oming breeding cattle, and have hunted big
game in the Rockies when there was a
scarcity of meat. Summers we always spend
at Chatham, Cape Cod. I have been oc-
cupied with the care of my platinum-
haired son and daughter, Peter, six, and
Pamela, four."

1935

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McM.
Hinshaw (Mary Barlow) a daughter, Anne
Stuart, December n, 1945.

Ann Hurlburt Bradley's husband has had
two exhibitions of his work in New York
City. She has two children, Lynn, five, and

Rickie, two. At last report they were bound
for Colorado for skiing and painting.

Shirley Smith King reports a second child,
a daughter, Avis Steele, born October 9,
1945. Toddy is three and a half years old.
She writes, "My husband and I have bought
a little summer home in South Harpswell,
Maine, where we will spend the month
of August. If any friends are in that vicinity
I would love to have them look us up."

Engaged: Helen H. Tower to Joseph
Stritmatter.

1936
Tenth Reunion

Attention 36'ers. I do hope you have re-
ceived and answered your cards and sent in
lots of news for the next Bulletin. My
apologies for not sending cards before, but
ray husband got home, we found a house,
started to settle and then took a two-week
vacation in New England, stopping at Abbot
to greet old friends, and showing my husband
where I'd like one of our daughters to go.
What terrific changes have been made in
routine! And the new wing is beautiful. You
have to see it to appreciate it. Do hope lots
of you will return on June 8 for the Alumnae
luncheon, after which we'll have a class tea
at Fieldstones. Looking forward to seeing

Anne Russell Loring,
Reunion Chairman
2 West Maple Ave.,
Morristown, N. J.
Betty Jamison Crandell sends her regrets.
"Have a four-year-old boy John Underhill
Crandell Jr., and daughter nine months old,
Cathy Wheeler Crandell. I am afraid I will
have to miss our 10th as I will be away.
Have fun and few laughs for me.

Send personal news items for the October
Bulletin. The editors depend on you:

1937

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Arthur W.
Tucker (Martha Elizabeth Ransom), 632
Great Plain Rd., Needham.

Married: Nancy Burns to Lt. John Joseph
McArdle, February 23, in Andover.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Sydney P. Harrison
(Jeannette Partridge) a son, Sydney P. Jr.,
March 17.

Its purpose and use are restricted .

1938

Jeanne Sawyer Faggi is living in Ballard-
vale.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Edwin R. Fellows
(Carol Whittemore) a third child and second
daughter, Jane Booth, March 26.

Engaged: Marie Winsor Appleby to
Malcolm Douglas Severance. Mr. Severance
was with the Army Air Forces.

1939

Barbara Bellows is in charge of Red Cross
work at Tulln Air Base, just outside of
Vienna, where she has been since August
1945. She recently had "leave" and went to
Switzerland where she enjoyed the skiing at
St. Moritz.

Engaged: Mary Anne Patterson to Dr.
William S. Hannan.

Engaged: Audrey Rugg to Frank J.
Shanaberg.

Mary Woodman O'Hagan writes that she
hopes to "come back to the states in a month
or two. Practically the first place I shall visit
after dumping the children in Granny's lap
will be Abbot." Mary's address is 1 1 Watuk-
loof Rd., Pretoria, So. Africa.

1940

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Mary Howards
14 Ware St., Cambridge.

Engaged: Barbara Fowler to Robert
George Borden Jr.

Doris Sawyer Hoar and her husband have
bought a house in North Acton, and antici-
pate having a place for Stephanie and the
dogs to roam.

Ann Schoepflin Ryder's husband has been
discharged from the Navy and they are living
in California.

A correct address is a life line. Have we
yours?

1941
Fifth Reunion

Hey group: I'm not complainin' and I'm
not braggin', but move over and let the spirit
of joy in — that's not I but the spirit of Abbot
days. We've had a good turnout, now come
on all you who have said "no", come cele-
brate with us "yesses." We'll miss you if

you're not at the reunion and for those who do
arrive at the halls of Abbot — let the imagina-
tion frame the picture. I wonder what was
in that treasure we buried? See you soon.

Sue Long Kremer,
1 1 72 Park Ave.,
New York City 28
Married: Jeannette Biart Scofield to Lt.
David Warren, February 2. She expects to
live in Norwich, Conn, as her husband works
as a sales engineer in New York City.

Ruth Bondy Lowry met her husband in
California on his return from the So. Pacific.
She is uncertain about reunion.

Miriam Colder Dunn says, "For almost five
years I've talked about going back to the 5th
reunion at Abbot. If only we didn't live so
far away in Garden City, Kan. Would so
love to see you all and Abbot again but I'm
afraid I'll only be there in spirit."

Born to: 2nd Lt. and Mrs. Henry D.
Altorfer (Mary Elizabeth Erkhart) a son,
Stephen Henry, February 16. While her
husband is serving overseas in the Philip-
pines as navigator for a B-29 crew, she is
living with her parents in Peoria, 111.

Nancy Gerrish MacFayden and her hus-
band are in Williamstown where he has
resumed his studies at Williams College.

Jo Hartwell Boddington says, "give all the
Group my love and I'll be thinking of you
in June."

Dorothy Harvey sends her regrets.
Doris Jones Hannegan plans to attend
reunion. "Have lost contact with so many
people I hope to see at reunion. Bob has
been discharged and we're living a routine
life trying to keep up with the two 'wild
Indians,' and believe me it's a job in itself—
but lots of fun."

Betty Harris Day hopes to be at reunion.
Nancy Kelley has started a two-year grad-
uate course at Simmons School of Social
Work in Boston. "Of course I shall be at
every event of the reunion."

Peggy Little Dice is teaching English to
freshmen at the University of Michigan, is
sorry to miss reunion.

Mary Martin expects to be present.
Julie Nelson Williams writes, "I will defin-
itely be at Commencement. Wouldn't miss
it for anything. Red has his old job back
with a tobacco Co. He's going to South
Africa in March for the market."

but its effect boundless!

Vernice Moody has sent a most interesting
account of her work at the Walter Reed
General Hospital where she is on the staff
of the Physical Therapy Dept. She teaches
boys to use their artificial limbs. She says
"whoever thinks such work would be de-
pressing should see my prize patient with
both legs amputated above the knee and
right arm amputated at the shoulder stride
across the floor on his wooden legs."

Polly Packard Blackmore is in Madison,
Wise, where her husband is in graduate
school and doing some time teaching and
recreation supervision at the Madison Civic
Center. She is still taking voice lessons, and
finds "homemaking a completely satisfying
outlet for all my energies and talents."

Emily Ruth Poynter expects to be at
reunion.

Eloise Perkins Blizzard and her husband
have bought a plantation in Milledgeville,
Ga., where they are planning to be truck
farmers.

Married: Jane Parrot to Arthur Kerr
Brown Jr., March 2, in Summit, N.J.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Floyd M. Shumway
(Peggy Rabling) a second child, Jean Todd,
February 24. Spencer Thomas is now almost
three years old. Peggy has been all during
the war and at present in charge of four Red
Cross production rooms in and around Fair-
field, Conn. She is also on the board of the
Little Garden Club of Conn., and recently
was general chairman of the annual flower
show.

Ellie Rafton says "will probably attend
our 5th reunion. Hope to locate a job in
social case work in or around Boston."

Born to: Lt. and Mrs. Stanley M. Vermeil
(Louella Sommer) a son, Donald Edward,
February 1.

Joan Waugh is working for an advertizing
agency in Boston "and loves it. Am looking
forward to the 5th reunion and hope most
of the class of '41 will be on hand."

Dotty White Wicker has been travelling
around with Ed. and Johnny, fourteen-
month -old child. Hopes she may attend
reunion.

Edith White is taking the Radcliffe Man-

agement Training Course and expects to get
her certificate around June 10, so may have
to miss reunion.

Nancy Whittier Atkinson's husband is with
the Seabees in Manila. She hopes to come
to Abbot for reunion.

Bonney Wilson Hakanson plans definitely
for reunion.

1942

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Ray T. Hanson
(Patricia Daniels) a son, Daniel Victor,
January 28.

Engaged: Juliette Weston to Lt. Robert
B. Suhr USNAC. Juliette plans a June
wedding after her graduation from Stanford
University.

1943

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Marion Bur-
dine, 404 N.E. 26th Terrace, Miami, Fla.

Married: Patricia Pierpont to Richard
Whitaker Graves Jr., USNR, February 27,
in Watertown, Conn.

1944

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Nancy Mc-
Ivor, 13 Auburn St., Concord, N. H.

Esther D. Smith (aff. '44) is a student
nurse at the Presbyterian Hospital School of
Nursing, at Columbia Medical Center,
New York City.

Please send wedding announcements to
the Alumnae Office.

1945
First Reunion

Reunion Chairman: Miss Hilary Paterson,
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

"Hope to see as many of the class of 1945

as possible back on June 8. Being the 75th

anniversary of the Alumnae Association and

what's more important (to us) our First

reunion, it would be wonderful if we could

get a big number together to talk everything

over as we used to in the Senior Parlor.

Please try to make it."

Hilary

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Shirley Som-
mer, 1367 Brown Hills Rd., Rockford, 111.

news! NEWS! NEWS!

Name

Class

Address

Postal District Number

Write news about yourself and others for the October Bulletin. Tear out
and mail before September 15, to the Alumnae Office, Abbot Academy,
And over, Mass.

Record of War Service

Please Jill out and return as soon as possible to the
Alumnae Office, Abbot Academy, Andover, Mass.

Maiden Name Glass

Married Name

Address

Postal District No. .

Branch and Name of Service: Army Navy Marines

Coast Guard Medical Air Red Cross .

Rank: Promotions :

Date of Entering

Date of Discharge

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ABBOT ALUMNAE DAUGHTERS AND RELATIVES

(See page 8)

Abbot Academy Alumnae Association

Associate Member of the American Alumni Council

OFFICERS, 1 946- 1 948

President

Mrs. Frank C. d'Elseaux
(Virginia Gay)
12 Sheffield Rd.
Winchester, Mass.

Vice-presidents

Mrs. Douglas Donald
(Edith Johnson)
8 Carisbrooke Street
Andover, Mass.

Mrs. Russell T. Loesch
(Polly Francis)
3 Sears Ave.
Melrose Highlands, Mass.

Mrs. Arthur W. Tucker
(Martha Elizabeth Ransom)
632 Great Plain Rd.
Needham, Mass.

Clerk
Mrs. George K. Sanborn
(Frances Flagg)
Andover, Mass.

Treasurer

Mrs, Dino Olivetti
(Rosamond Castle)
Andover, Mass.

Social Secretary

Mrs. Reeve Chipman
(Constance Parker)
5 Morton Street
Andover, Mass.

Executive Secretary
Miss Marion McPherson
33^ Summer Street
Andover, Mass.

ALUMNAE TRUSTEES

1942-1948 i945~ I 95 I

Miss Margaret Van Voorhis Mrs. Lenert W. Henry

304 Lexington Avenue (Helen Allen)

New York City, N. Y. 246 Glen Road

Weston 93, Mass.

ABBOT CLUB PRESIDENTS

BOSTON

Mrs. Ernest F. Tillson
(Gwendolyn Bloomfield)
50 Windsor Road
Wellesley Hills, Mass.

CHICAGO

Mrs. J. Allen Lind
(Mary Simpson)
1 239 Asbury Avenue
Winnetka, 111.

CONNECTICUT

Miss Sara G. Peck
20 Fair view Terrace
Derby, Conn.

DETROIT

Mrs. Thomas Nalle
(Harriet Balfe)
1 2 1 1 Willow Lane
Birmingham, Mich.

MAINE, EASTERN

Mrs. John H. McLoon
(Frances McDougall)
1 1 1 Beech St.
Rockland, Maine

MAINE, WESTERN
Mrs. Harold Robinson
(Harriette Woolverton)
Cape Elizabeth, Maine

NEW YORK

Miss Gertrude E. Holbrook
Stonecrest Apartments
Larchmont, N. Y.

OHIO CENTRAL
Mrs. Paul Meek
(Louise Norpell)
Worthington, Ohio

OHIO, CLEVELAND

Mrs. George Worthington
(Madeleine Fiske)
Chesterland, Ohio

OLD COLONY

Mrs. A. Scudder Moore
(Ruth Murray)
96 South Elm Street
West Bridgewater, Mass.

PITTSBURGH
Mrs. George H. Jackson
(Gertrude Miller)
515 North McKean Street
Butler, Pa.

ABBOT ACADEMY BULLETIN

Series 14

OCTOBER, 1946

Issue i

Table of Contents

Cover photograph, Alumnae daughters and relatives
Frontispiece: The Abbot Academy Faculty

Abbot's i i 8th Year

The John-Esther Gallery ....

School Events

The Abbot Second Century Alumnae Fund

Honor A's

Alumnae Daughters and Relatives (on cover)

New Alumnae Relatives

Alumnae Daughter Graduates 1946

Class Reunion Photographs

Alumnae Association

Abbot Clubs ....

In Memoriam ....

Class News ....

Page
see page 8

5
6

9
10

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18

THE EDITORIAL BOARD

Jane B. Carpenter, 1892, honorary

Constance Parker Chipman, 1906, Editor-in-Chief

Marion McPherson, 191 8

Virginia Gay d'Elseaux, 1929, ex officio

Published four times yearly, October, February, May, and September, by Abbot Acad-
emy, Andover, Massachusetts.

Entered as second class matter December 12, 1933, at the post office at Andover, Massa-
chusetts, under the act of August 24, 191 2.

THE ABBOT ACADEMY FACULTY

First Row, left to right: Katherine Macdonald, Phys. Ed.; Dorothy Duff, Resident Nurse;
Gerda Kaatz, Spanish; Mildred Hatch, Latin; Marie Baratte, French; Edith A. Grassi, Latin,
Ancient History; Mrs. Frederick Porter, Asst. Nurse; G. Amy Goodman, Secretary.

Second Row: Germaine Arosa, French; Kate Friskin, Piano; M. Elaine Dodge, Household
Science; Alice C. Sweeney, Acting Principal; Idanelle McMurray, English; Pauline Anderson,
Librarian; Marion McPherson, Business Principles.

Third Row: J. Hope Baynes, Financial Secretary; Anna E. Roth, History; Harriet L. McKee,
Latin, Greek; Isabel Hancock, Math.; Dorothea Wilkinson, English; Hilda R. Baynes, French;
Gwendolyn Elroy, Asst. Phys. Ed.; Bertha Morgan Gray, Dramatics.

Top Row: Barbara Humes, Administrative Assistant; Hope Coolidge, House Supt.; Eleanor
M. Tucker, Chemistry, Math.; Louise L. Coffin, General Science; Lucile Tuttle, Director of Resi-
dence, English; M. Dorothy Baker, English; Mrs. Marjorie F. Stevens, Math.; Mrs. Ruth C.
Reeves, Administrative Assistant.

Faculty not in photograph: W. Abbott Cheever, Art; Mary Gay, History of Art; Walter E.
Howe, Director of Music; The Rev. Alfred Burns, Bible; Louise Robinson, Asst. Financial
Secretary; C. Jane Sullivan, Remedial Reading; Gertrude Tingley, Singing. Marguerite Hearsey,
Principal (on leave of absence).

Abbot's 118th Year

On the completion of Miss Hearsey's first ten years as Principal of Abbot,
the Trustees, in recognition of her successful administration of the affairs of
the school especially in consideration of the unusual difficulties which came
with the war years, have granted her a year's leave of absence. Miss Hearsey
remained at her desk throughout the opening days, greeting old girls and
welcoming to Abbot new girls and their parents who came with them to
enter their daughters on the opening day. It was during the first chapel serv-
ice of the new term when the whole school was engaged that Miss Hearsey
drove quietly off the campus to begin her holiday. With her go the affection-
ate good wishes of her faculty, the students, Abbot alumnae and all her
friends near and far not connected with the school. Already her presence is
greatly missed, but all are of one accord in feeling a sense of gratification
that she is to enjoy a highly deserved period of rest and refreshment. She has
promised to have a "good time" and that is what we wish for her during the
coming months of leisure. Her plans are not completed as yet but the proba-
bilities are that she will travel in the United States and possibly Canada, and
visit many schools and colleges as she goes.

The administration of the school is in competent hands: Miss Alice
Sweeney who has been Director of Studies has been appointed Acting
Principal, and has taken up residence in the school with apartments in
Draper Hall. Miss Sweeney will nevertheless continue to carry on her work
as Director of Studies in addition to her new duties. Sharing the year's re-
sponsibilities with Miss Sweeney is
Miss Lucile Tuttle, a former teacher of
English at Abbot whose office is that of
Director of Residence. Both Miss Sween-
ey and Miss Tuttle will conduct classes
in English. Miss Tuttle is making her
home at Sunset Lodge.

Abbot has commenced her 1 1 8th
year with a full registration, one of the
largest in the history of the school. Girls
have come from fifteen different states
and the District of Columbia, and
there are students from Puerto Rico;
the Dominion of Canada; South Amer-
ica, and Madras, India. Moreover,
Abbot welcomed with special warmth
fourteen new students who are daugh-
ters and relatives of alumnae, and whose
names appear elsewhere in this issue of
the Bulletin.
ALICE CURTISS SWEENEY New appointments to the faculty are

as follows: Miss Mildred Hatch, A.B.
Boston University, is to assist in the ad-
ministration office and to teach two
classes of Latin; Miss Pauline Anderson,
of Broadalbin, N. Y., a graduate of
Kenka College and of the Library
School of New York College for Teach-
ers at Albany, is to be the librarian;
Miss Edith A. Grassi, of Haverhill,
A.B. Tufts College, and M.A. Wellesley
is to teach Latin and Ancient History;
Miss Idanelle McMurray, of Cookeville,
Tennessee, A.B. and M.A. Vanderbilt
University is to teach English; Miss
Gwendolyn Elroy of Waltham, gradu-
ate of the Bouve-Boston School is to
teach Physical Education; Mile. Marie
Baratte is to teach French. Mile. Bar-
atte whose sister Marthe was on the
Abbot faculty last year (now teaching
at Russell Sage College) has just arrived
in this country from her home at Porni-
chet, France. She has received her Baccalaureat des Lettres from the College
Universitaire de Chateau-Gomtier, and had done graduate work at the
University of Rennes.

Mrs. Frederick Porter R.N. New England Baptist Hospital, has been
appointed as assistant nurse, and the Reverend Alfred Burns of Grace
Church, Lawrence, will teach Bible. Mr. Raymond Coon, of Needham, who
has in other years been a member of the music faculty at Abbot will again
join Miss Friskin and Mr. Howe as teacher of pianoforte.

LUCILE TUTTLE

The John Esther-Gallery

Curator: W. Abbott Cheever

October 1 5-3 1 , Retrospective Show by Alicia Waterston

November 1 1-25, Fifteen Modern Watercolors lent by the Museum of

Modern Art
January 6-22, What is Modern Painting, lent by the Museum of Modern Art

School Events

Tuesday. September ij, Opening of School

Saturday, September 21. School Picnic: Old Girl-New Girl Pa:

Sunday. September 22, Vespers: The Reverend A. Graham Baldwin. School

Minister, Phillips Academy
Saturday. September 28. Senior Picnic at Ipswich: Salem sightseeing trip:

Dancers, Katya Delakova and Fred Berk
Sunday. September 2 r j. Vespers: The Reverend Raymond Calkins. D.D.. Pastor

Emeritus. First Church. Cambridge
Thursday. October 3, Gargoyle -Grifhn Initiation

Saturday. October 5. Corridor Stunts: Abbey House. Homestead, and Sherman
Sunday. October 6, Vespers: The Reverend Whitney Hale, D.D.. Church of the

Advent, Boston
Saturday. October 12. Corridor Stunts: Draper Hall excluding Seniors and Day

Scholars
Sunday. October 13, Vespers : Abbot Christian Association
Saturday. October i<y. Dorothy Cra^sTord, Monologuist
Sunday. October 20, Vespers: The Reverend Roy L. Minich, D.D.. The First

Church, Maiden
Saturday. October 26. Lecture: "Know Yourself," by Dr. Harry P. Van Walt
Sunday. October 2j. Vespers: The Reverend James Gordon Gilkey, D.D..

South Congregational Church, Springfield
Saturday. Xovember 2. Open Forum
Sunday. Xozember 3, Vespers: The Reverend George L. Cadigan. Grace

Church, Salem
Sunday. November 10. Vespers: The Reverend .Allen \\ . Clark. The Calvary

Church, Danvers
Saturday. Xozember 16, Field Day
Sunday, Xozember ij. Concert by Miss Kate Friskin. Mr. Einar Hansen. Mr,

B. Pironchi
Sunday. Xozember 24, Vespers: The Reverend Vivian T. Pomeroy. D.D.. The

First Parish, Milton
Thursday. Xozember 28. Thanksgiving Day
Saturday. Xozember 30, Lecture on Current Events. Mrs. Frank Mansfield

Taylor
Sunday. December 1. Vespers: Abbot Christian .Association
Saturday. December 7, A.D.S. Play

Sunday, December 8, Vespers: The Reverend Howard L. Rubendall. Head-
master, Mt. Hermon School
Saturday, December 14, Recital by Mrs. Bertha Morgan Gray
Sunday, December 13, Christmas Service, 7.30 p.m.. Davis Hall
Monday, December 16, Christmas Carol Service
Tuesday, December ij, Christmas Vacation to Wednesday. January 8

THE ABBOT SECOND CENTURY ALUMNAE FUND

Appeal in 1946 for Alumnae Scholarships

Two $750.00 Grants

In celebration of the 75th Anniversary of
the Alumnae Association the objective for
the year 1946 has been for Alumnae Scholar-
ships. Two alumnae daughters are now re-
ceiving grants and we anticipate additional
gifts from you between now and the first
of April 1947 from which grants may be
made during the following school year.

Unrestricted gifts to the school enable the
Board of Trustees to use our contributions
when and where a need exists, and for this
reason we shall return in 1947 to the yearly
unrestricted giving which is so very much
appreciated by the school.

Class Reunion Gifts

These gifts are not requested, but we are
happy to say, are always made. Contribu-
tions from individual members to the Fund
that are made during the year of a class
reunion, are credited to the gift made by the
class as a group.

Class of 1881
1886
1891
1896
1901
1906
1911
1916
1921
1926
1931
1936
1941
1943
1945

$ 5.00

400.00

35.00

126.00

50 00

30 00

85 00

35 00

13 00

121 00

168 00

33 00

46 00

125 00

36.00

Special Gift of $200.00

The Abbot Academy Alumnae Associa-
tion voted at its annual meeting on June 8,
1946 to make a 75th Anniversary Gift of
$200.00 to the school through the Abbot
Second Century Alumnae Fund.

One Yearly Appeal

Annual gifts are solicited once each year
through Class Fund Secretaries. The appeals
tagether with a personal note are mailed
during the month of March and contribu-
tions are sent directly to the Alumnae Office
at Abbot Academy from April 1st of the
current year to April 1 st of the year follow-
ing.

Total Gifts

Contributions 1945 $2,014 04

Contributions $3,240 50

(since April 1, 1946)

Class Fund Secretaries

Class Fund Secretaries are now elected
by each senior class before graduation and
continue to serve until the fifth reunion when
another secretary is elected. When the Abbot
Second Century Alumnae Fund was first
organized in 1939 all secretaries were ap-
pointed by the Alumnae Office but gradually
secretaries elected at reunion meetings are
taking their places. Several classes have no
Class Fund Secretary for the coming year
and appointments will be made by the
Alumnae Office.

A Word of Appreciation

"I have a very special interest in the scholarship gifts and it is our hope that
we shall be able to make increasingly substantial contributions to the Fund as the
years go along. I was a scholarship student at Abbot and as I look back on my
experiences I can say with real conviction that the contribution Abbot made to
my growth and development is second only to the unusually thoughtful and fine
guidance I received in my family.

It must be true for many other Abbot girls as it was for me— Abbot served as a
splendid transition between the dependent and sheltered life of a child in the family
group and the independent, responsible life of an individual in her own com-
munity."

Member of the Class of 1933

Class Fund Secretaries

1874-1891 Ruth Childs (Mrs. Ernest C. Toung '09) 1918

1886 Mary Gorton (Mrs. Frank W. Darling) 1919

1892 Jane B. Carpenter 1920

1893 AnnaNettleton (Mrs. Harry R. Miles) 1921

1894 Mabel Bosher (Mrs. Doremus Scudder) 1922

1896 Ruth Loring (Mrs. Henry V. Conant) 1923

1897 Gertrude Ware (Mrs. Alexander Bunce) 1924

1898 Selina Cook (Mrs. Robert Dunbar) 1925

1899 Lilian Mooers (Mrs. Brainerd E. Smith) 1928

1900 Grace Chapman (Mrs. Arthur P. Spear) 1930

1901 Helen Hale 1931

1902 Mildred Mooers (Mrs. Hezekiah P. Poore) 1932
1904 Elizabeth Winsor (Mrs. William O. Pettit) 1933
1906 Constance Parker (Mrs. Reeve Chipman) 1937

1910 Ethel Reigeluth (Mrs. Myron G. Darby) 1940

1911 Edith Johnson (Mrs. Douglas Donald) 1943
1913 Margaret Wilkins 1944

1916 Laura Cheever (Mrs. James E. Downs) 1945

1917 Dorothy Small (Mrs. Oliver D. Westcott) 1946

Velma Rowell (Mrs. George J. Cutler)

Grace Leyser (Mrs. Grace L. Boynton)

Muriel Moxley (Mrs. Beverly R. Hubbard)

Marion Kimball (Mrs. David H. Bigelow)

Ruth Hill (Mrs. A. Evans Kephart)

Elizabeth Flagg (Mrs. Sterling Dow)

Polly Bullard (Mrs. A. John Holden, Jr.)

Charlotte Hanna (Mrs. George B. Beveridge)

Emily Sloper

Mary Jane Owlsey (Mrs. Jack R. Warwick)

Barbara Graham (Mrs. Francis Holland)

Dorothy Richardson

Margaret Chase (Mrs. Robert E. Johnson)

Martha E. Ransom (Mrs. Arthur W. Tucker)

Mary Howard

Marion Burdine

Nancy Mclvor

Shirley Sommer

Mary Burton

HONOR A'S
Left to right: Mary Burton, Virginia Finney, Miss Hearsey, Barbara Graf, Dorothy King

ALUMNAE DAUGHTERS AND RELATIVES

{Photo on front cover)

First Row: Martha Ball, Janet Mclvor, Felicia Tavares, Nancy Hamilton.

Second Row: Mary Alice Dodge, Mary Farrar, Helen Sinclaire, Paula Flowers.

Third Row: Joyce Griffin, Joanne Campbell, Nancy Nalle, Carolyn England, Jane Brown,

Frances Brumback, Lee Booth
Fourth Row: Carolyn Jenkins, Sally Humason, Nancy Brumback, Elizabeth Ann Mitchell
Fifth Row: Rosemary Jones, Harriet Lattin, Nancy Barnard, Mackay Selden, Mary Rich
Top Row: Nancy Newhall, Mary Carroll Sinclaire, Mary Lo White, Helen Taylor

NEW ALUMNAE RELATIVES, SEPTEMBER 1946

Martha Ball, sister of Barbara Ball 1945; Fredericka Brown, sister of Elizabeth Brown 1945;
Mary Alice Dodge, granddaughter of Alice Stebbins Dodge, 1883; Mary Farrar, grand-
daughter of Mary Carter Righter 1889, daughter of Elizabeth Righter Farrar 1925, niece of
Katharine Righter Morris 1918; Carolyn Jenkins, daughter of Louise Kimball Jenkins 1916;
Rosemary Jones, daughter of Jessie Wightman Jones 191 1, sister of Virginia Jones Garvan
1938, and Doris Jones Hannegan 1941; Harriet Lattin, granddaughter of Harriet Chapell
Newcomb 1876, daughter of Cornelia Newcomb Lattin 191 7, and niece of Ruth Newcomb
1 9 10; Elizabeth Merrick, sister of Joyce Merrick 1946; Nancy Nalle, daughter of Harriet
Balfe Nalle 191 7; Helen Sinclaire, daughter of Mary Swartwood Sinclaire 1923, sister of
Mary Carroll Sinclaire, now attending Abbot; Gloria Yoffa, sister of Joyce Yoffa Rudolph
1 943 ; Elizabeth Moss, sister of Marguerite Moss, aff. 1 948.

Sally V. Allen
daughter of Mary Button
Allen 1 91 9

Georgia Lee Mills

laughter of Lee Wickersham
Mills 1920

Alumnae

Daughter

Graduates

1946

Mary Louise Howe

daughter of Esther Van
Dervoort Howe 1916

Barbara Biddle

granddaughter of Winifred
Brownell Freeman 1896

Carolyn M. Teeson

daughter of Marion Martin
Teeson 191 3

CLASS OF 1886

Left to right: Jennie Lan-
phear Buck, Frances Swazey
Parker, Mary Gorton Dar-
ling, Alice Jenkins, Harriet
Raymond Brosnan.

CLASS OF 1896

Left to right: Sara Jackson
Smith, Lillian Franklin Carr,
Ruth Loring Conant, Grace
Pearson Preston, Harriet
Dockrill Bennett, Helen
Marland Bradbury.

CLASS OF 1906

First Row: Ri Pillsbury
Hawks '07, Persis Mackin-
tire Carr, Maud Sprague,
Alice Barbour Merrill, Ruth
Adams Downer, Constance
Parker Chipman.

Second Row: Rena Porter
Hastings, Evelyn Korn,
Helen Ellis Rice.

Top Row: Helen Jones
Bliss, Louise Richards Rol-
lins '07, Clara Hukill Leeds
'07.

CLASS OF 1911

Left to right: Jessie Wight-
man Jones, Ruth Niks
Thompson, Margaret Cope-
land, Dorothy Bigelow
Arms, Marion Brown, Re-
becca Newton W e e d o n ,
Edith Johnson Donald, Eth-
el Swain Smith, Henrietta
Wiest Zaner.

CLASS OF 1916

First Row: Grace Merrill
Emery, Louise King Childs,
Dorothy Higgins Rand,
Louise Kimball Jenkins, El-
eanor Frary Rogers, Esther
Van Dervoort Howe.

Second Row: Charlotte
Eaton, Esther Kilton, Eu-
genia Parker, Katharine
Odell Randall.

Top Row: Emma Stohn
Larrabee, Vera Allen, Mil-
dred Jenkins Dalrymple,
Dorothy Pillsbury Bartlett.

CLASS OF 1921

First Row: Henrietta
Thompson Beal, Elizabeth
Thompson Winslow, Mild-
red Peabody, Helen Bruno
Clegg, Marion Cleveland
Botsford, Dorothy Martin
Buracker, Helen Norpell
Price.

Second Row: Marion Kim-
ball Bigelow, Eunice Meigs
Pease, Eleanor Voorhees,
Elizabeth Bulkeley.

Third Row: Edith Page
Bennett. Julia Guild Dan-
ielson, Margaret Ailing
Ward, Agnes Titcomb Hen-
derson, Louise Van Dervoort
Sweet.

Top Row: Frances Gasser
Stover, Elizabeth McClellan
Stefani, Alice Hallett Brad-
ley, Dorothy Carr, Lydia
Kunkel Eldredge.

CLASS OF 1926

First Row: Louise Douglas
Hill, Jane Hovey, Elinor
Mahoney Smith, Ruth Dead-
man McLennan.

Second Row: Frances
Flagg Sanborn, Priscilla
Perkins Leach, Ruth Katz-
mann Pope, Anstiss Bowser
Wagner, Alice Perry, Caro-
lyn Bridgham Ricard.

Top Row: Barbara Bloom-
field Wood, Katharine Clay
Sawyer, Frances McDougall
McLoon, Florence Allen
Needham.

CLASS OF 1931

First Row: Monica Keith,
Doris Allen Carroll, Peggy
O'Leary White, Faith Chip-
man Parker, Marcia Rudd
Keil, Mary Bacon.

Top Row: Katherine Al-
len Babson, Jane Sullivan,
Emily Bullock, Ruth Cann
Baker.

CLASS OF 1936

First Row: Clara Holland
Chase, Marion Mo oney
Starr, Mary Dooley.

Second Row: Polly Spear
Chapin, Sylvia Wright
Poole.

Top Row: Lucy Hawkes
Lamson, Mary Trafton
Simonds, Mary Swan, Sally
Scates Phelan.

CLASS OF 1941

First Row: Sue Long
Kremer, Nancy Kelley Park,
Joan Waugh, Addie Water-
house McKay, Bonnie Wil-
son Hakanson.

Second Row: Emily Ruth
Poynter, Alda Grieco Cesar-
ini, Frances Troub, Julie
Nelson Williams.

Alumnae Association

ALUMNAE DAY, JUNE 8, 1946

Virginia Gay d'Elseaux

Dear Alumnae : The Fall seems to find the
world still in a state of confusion, but I hope
that with you individually, life has become
normal. I hope that many of you will be
able to attend the Alumnae meetings and
the local Abbot club meetings this coming
year, and that I shall have the pleasure of
seeing you at these events.

My best wishes for a happy winter.

Virginia Gay d'Elseaux
President, Abbot Alumnae Association

Annual Meeting

Alumnae Day brought an enthusi-
astic return of over two hundred
D.O.G's, many celebrating their
class reunions, and seeing with eager
interest the new buildings and im-
provements. The program com-
menced with the Annual Meeting of
the Alumnae Association at 1 1 .30
a.m. in Abbot Hall, the president,

Mrs. Roberta Kendall Kennedy
presiding. The usual annual reports
were read and approved. The Alum-
nae Trustees Helen Allen Henry
and Margaret Van Voorhis spoke
appreciatively of their responsibili-
ties as representatives of the alumnae
on the Board of Trustees. The Boston
and New York Abbot Clubs were
represented by their presidents,
Gwendolyn Bloomfield Tillson and
Gertrude Holbrook respectively. The
entrance of the senior class was
watched with interest as there were
several alumnae daughters in the
group. Miss Hearsey presented the
class to Mrs. Kennedy, who ac-
cepted them in the name of the
Association as most promising new
members.

The Association then voted a gift
of $200. to the 75th Anniversary
Scholarship Fund, which is the ob-
jective of the Second Century Alum-
nae Fund this year. Miss McPherson
had announced the total amount
received since April 1, to be $2738.

Mrs. Helen Abbott Allen, chair-
man of the Nominating committee,
presented the report of the commit-
tee with the slate of new officers.
The secretary was empowered to
cast one ballot and the following
were declared elected to serve terms
of two years. Pres. Mrs. Virginia
Gay d'Elseaux 1928; Vice-pres. Mrs.
Edith Johnson Donald, 191 1, Mrs.
Polly Francis Loesch 1929, Mrs.
Martha Elizabeth Ransom Tucker
1937. Clerk, Mrs. Frances Flagg
Sanborn 1926; Treas. Mrs. Rosa-

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"MADAME ABBOT RETURNS"

Z*/* to ng/z*: Mary Rockwell, GzV/ c/"'j?/; Esther Van Dervoort Howe, Girl of '16; Helen Abbott
Allen, GzV/ of '01; Helen Marland Bradley, Girl of '96; Grace Holden, Girl of 'gr; Mary
Dooley, Girl of '46; Carol Paradise, Madame Abbot; Phyllis Campbell Bradley, Girl of
'36; Molly Jordan Goodrich, Girl of '06; Nancy Harrison, Girl of '41; Katherine Kennedy
Beardsley, Girl of '86; Frances Butler, Girl of '26; Lee Wickersham Mills, Girl of '21;
Edith Johnson Donald, Girl of 'u;

(Voice of the Abbot Spirit, Helen Danforth Prudden)

mond Castle Olivetti 1930. Mrs.
Kennedy introduced the new presi-
dent who then took the chair and
declared the meeting adjourned.

Alumnae Luncheon

At one o'clock all alumnae met in
the John-Esther Art Gallery for the
75th Anniversary luncheon. The
tables were beautifully decorated
with garden flowers by Ruth Clark
Weaver and her committee. The
seating arrangements by classes were
arranged by Marion Mellor Dean,
Cornelia Sargent Battershill and
Helen Hamblet Dyer. At the head
table were seated Miss Hearsey,
Mrs. Kennedy, Mrs. d'Ekeaux; past
presidents of the Alumnae Associa-
tion and the Alumnae Trustees. A
large appropriately decorated 75th
anniversary cake occupied a con-
spicuous place in the decorations.

In spite of a delicious luncheon the
heat grew so oppressive that it was
necessary to move to Abbot Hall for
the Anniversary program. Miss Hear-
sey was enthusiastically greeted fol-
lowing her introduction by Mrs.
Kennedy, and then gave an inter-
esting talk on Abbot's past, present
and prospects for future develop-
ment, announcing at the close the
plan for her coming year's leave of
absence. Then followed the reports
of the reuning classes, many an-
nouncing reunion gifts to the school.

The climax of the program was
the presentation of "Madame Abbot
Returns," a skit written by Helen
Danforth Prudden 1913. Characters
representing the reunion classes,
dressed in costumes of each period
(see photo), report to Madame
Abbot the contributions made by
alumnafc to the school she founded.
At the conclusion she says,

'I've heard enough to know my

friends,
My gift has paid rich dividends
In wit, achievement, human

good —
I'm proud of Abbot womanhood!
To you old girls, to new girls

everywhere,
I leave the school's future in your

care

The program closed with the singing
of "Alma Mater."

Around seventy-five alumnae met

for dinner in the Bailey Dining room,
as guests of the school. They fully
appreciated this opportunity of en-
joying the beautiful room with its
views of the Quadrangle Garden
and down the Maple Walk.

And so ended another successful
Alumnae Day. In spite of oppressive
heat, and a terrific thunderstorm in
the evening, everyone had a grand
time, and expressed genuine pride
and satisfaction in her beloved
school.

Receipts
June i, 1946

Treasurer's Report, 1945-46

(condensed for Bulletin)

Balance in Andover National Bank $903 . 76

Interest from Invested Funds 251 .56

30.00

12.22
34-53

24.24

; n55-32

Total
Expenditures

Alumni Council dues (1945- 1946)

Alumnae Office Secretaries' trip to Alumni Council

Meeting in Exeter, N. H.
Mrs. Chipman's trip to New York Abbot Club
President of Alumnae Association's trip to Boston

for Board Meeting
Andover Press Ltd. 1000 cards for joint meeting

of Alumnae Asso. and Boston Abbot Club
Rental of College Club for joint meeting
Speaker's fee for joint meeting
J. H. Playdon (Commencement flowers)
Senior Coffee Party

Total
June 3, 1946 Cash on hand in Andover National Bank

$ii55-32
Respectfully submitted

Laura Cheever Downs (Treas.)

I have examii^pd the within accounts and find the balance of

$000.25 correct. T _ _, , . .. N

J ^ Jean David Blunt (Auditor)

13-50

15.00

25.00

6.00

4-58

165.07

990-25

June 6, 1946

Abbot Clubs

"Thanks to the Abbot Club luncheon this spring I met /" That is

the happy report from several who have attended club meetings. Won't
you plan to attend the next scheduled event in your vicinity?

BOSTON (1892): President, Mrs. Ernest
F. Tillson (Gwendolyn Bloomfield) '22;
Vice-presidents, Mrs. Virginia Gay d'Elseaux
'28; Mrs. Elizabeth Sage Batchelder '33;
Recording Secretary, Mrs. Louise Risley Stever
37; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Nancy
Kelley Park '41; Treasurer, Mrs. Margaret
Nay Gramkow '27; Auditor, Mrs. Mary Piper
Sears '28; Program Chairman, Mrs. Faith
Chipman Parker '31; Directors 1946- 1948,
Barbara Goss '22, Mary Howard '40, Mrs.
Jacqueline Proctor de Brun '40. Directors
1 945- 1 947, Mrs. Lydia Kunkel Eldredge '21,
Miss Irene Atwood '18, Mrs. Ruth Baker
Johnson '30.

The fall meeting of the Boston Abbot
Club will be on Saturday, November 2, at
the College Club. A buffet luncheon will be
served at one o'clock.

Madeleine Proctor 1938, recently a Capt.
in the WAC will speak on her varied ex-
periences in this country and abroad.

CHICAGO (1921): President, Mrs. J.
Allen Lind (Mary Simpson); Secretary, Mrs.
Edith Bullen Creeden, 461 Hill Rd., Win-
netka; Treasurer, Mrs. Margaret Hall Walker.

CONNECTICUT (1923): President, Miss
Sara Peck, 20 Fairview Ter., Derby; Secre-
tary-Treasurer, Mrs. Virginia Lawton Cheney,
36 Morse St., Hamden.

DETROIT (1922): President, Mrs. Thom-
as Nalle (Harriet Balfe) ,1211 Willow Lane,
Birmingham.

MAINE, EASTERN (1926): President,
Mrs. John H. McLoon (Frances McDougall),
in Beech St., Rockland, Maine; Secretary
and Treasurer, Mrs. Herbert L. Bryant (An-
netta Richards), 64 State St., Brewer,
Maine.

A meeting of the club was held at Cam-
den on Sept. 5, with an attendance of eight.

MAINE, WESTERN (1922): President,
Mrs. Harold Robinson (Harriette Woolver-
ton), Cape Elizabeth; Treasurer, Mrs. Char-
lotte Baldwin Frohock.

NEW YORK (1898): President, Miss
Gertrude Holbrook '25; Vice-presidents ,
Mrs. Laura Scudder Williamson '24, Mrs.
Helga Lundin Buttrick '23; Recording Secre-
tary, Mrs. Grace Leyser Boynton '19; Corre-
sponding Secretary, Mrs. Jane Owsley War-
wick '30; Treasurer, Mrs. Ruth Cann Baker
'3 1 ; Directors, Mrs. Helen Bradley Hodgkin-
son '19, Mrs. Eunice Meigs Pease '21, Mrs.
Ethel Thompson James '24; Auditor, Mrs.
Despina Plakias Messinesi '29.

The fall meeting of the club will be held
on Saturday, December 7; place to be
announced. Save the date. Date a classmate!

Miss Friskin gave a delightful recital at
the spring meeting. Class hostesses made each
alumna feel especially welcome at her special
class table, and an unusually friendly atmos-
phere prevailed.

OHIO, CENTRAL (1921): President,
Mrs. Paul Meek (Louise Norpell), 5600
Meek Rd., Worthington. Secretary: Mrs.
Coburn R. Wheeler (Bettina Rollins), 2644
Berwyn Rd., Columbus 8, Ohio.

A meeting of the club was held on May 20,
a* the Maramor Restaurant in Columbus.
Those present were Louise Norpell Meek,
Peg Graham Greenleaf, and Bettina Rollins
Wheeler of Columbus. From Newark came
Alice Hinckley Black, Alice Fleet Miller,
Alice Miller Spaulding, Kate Winegarner
Spencer and Laura Beggs.

OHIO, CLEVELAND (1927): President,
Mrs. George Worthington (Madeleine Fiske),
Chesterland, Ohio.

OLD COLONY (1924): President, Mrs.
A. Scudder Moore (Ruth Murray), 96 So.
Elm St., West Bridgewater; Sec.-Treas., Mrs.
Oscar Finger (Martha Wind), 90 Belcher
Ave., Brockton.

The annual fall luncheon meeting will
be held on Saturday, October 26, at "The
Merrymans," near Brockton.

PITTSBURGH (1921): President, Mrs.
George H. Jackson (Gertrude Miller), But-
ler, Pa.; Secretary, Mrs. Joseph M. Browne
(Eliza Atwell), 529 Pine Rd., Sewickley.

In Memoriam

1873

Sarah E. Sands (Mrs. Daniel W. Little-
field) died on December 28, 1943.

1874

Harriet Parks Baldwin died on August 22,
in her 91st year.

1879
Mary Noyes died on November 19, 1945.

1880

Emma Chadbourne, widow of Rev. Sum-
ner G. Wood, died October 8.

1889

Mary Burr Hutchings died September 6.
For many years Miss Hutchings taught
English and literature in the Bangor, Maine,
high school. "She had the art of moulding
her pupils, who admired and loved her."

1891

Annie Brown, widow of Leonard H.
Campbell, died on April 25.

Louise Goldsmith, wife of Arthur G.
Clark, died on April 22.

1892

Edith Croll (Mrs. Frank Brown), died on
October 31, 1940.

1896

Sara Knowles Jackson, widow of Albert
G. Smith, died on September 9. She was the
granddaughter of The Rev. Samuel C.
Jackson, who was a member of the original
Board of Trustees of Abbot, and who con-
tinued in that office for fifty years. She taught
arts and crafts for many years, as well as

practicing occupational therapy. She at-
tended her 50th reunion at Abbot last June.
Her daughter, Susanna Smith Bowles '24,
represented the 4th generation in a direct
line to attend Abbot.

Mrs. Smith bequeathed a fine portrait of
The Rev. Samuel Jackson to Abbot.

1902

Mercer Mason, wife of the late Major
James B. Kemper, died on August 13. She
was the sister of Anne Mason Gregory 1903,
and Ruth Mason Dunlop 1905.

1908

Marian Allchin, wife of Paul Rowland,
died on May 30.

1933

Betty Ballantyne, wife of David W. Murch-
ison, died on June 15.

Past Faculty

Dr. Faith L. Merserve died on July 19.
She was Examining Physician from 1931-
1942.

Prof. Joseph N. Ashton died August 2.
From 1907 to 191 2 Prof. Ashton was director
of Music at Abbot. He was the author of
"Music in Worship," and of other books,
and had been organist in several churches.

The Staff

Oscar Hammer died on August 21.
Since 1928 he had been the painstaking
craftsman who accomplished with meticu-
lous care, the many large and small car-
pentering jobs in the school.

Alumnae Visitors at Abbot During the Summer

Nancy Emerson '44, Barbara W. Johnson '42, Florence Fitzhugh Phelps
'28, Elizabeth Barnes Callender '34, Elizabeth Burtnett Horle '25, Esther
Wood Peirce '23, Marilyn Tapper Mountain '43, Anna Nettleton Miles '93,
Cecile Van Peursem Lane '35, Barbara A. Hill '42, Helen Weber Mitchell
'09, Doris McGlintock Taylor '19, Nancy Baylor '44, Nellie L. Campbell
'96, Lisette Micoleau Tillinghast '31, Barbara B. Ball '45, Harriet Balfe
Nalle '17, Molly Hubbard '44, Betty Colson '44.

Class News

1874-1890

Class Funds Secretary: Mrs. Ernest C.
Young (Ruth Childs), 6 Emerson St., Brook-
line.

1876

Harriet Chapell Newcomb's granddaughter
Harriet Lattin, has entered Abbot. Her
mother is Cornelia Newcomb Lattin, 191 7.

1883

Alice Stebbins Dodge's granddaughter
Mary Alice Dodge, is a new student this fall.

1886

The class of 1886 has now nine members,
just half its eighteen original members, and
six of these nine, came to the reunion to
celebrate its sixtieth anniversary.

We have come through these years re-
markably well, and went to all the regular
events of commencement time including the
75th anniversary luncheon of the Alumnae
Association. We had supper in the school
dining room Saturday night, breakfast with
Miss Hearsey at Sunset Lodge, and our own
class dinner Sunday noon.

The best part of it all was our being to-
gether as classmates on the sixtieth anniver-
sary, and we hope, that at the end of this
next five years, there will be some members
who can come to a reunion, and who will
represent and report about this class of 1886.
Harriet Raymond Brosnan

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Frank W. Dar-
ling (Mary Gorton), Hampton, Virginia.

1889

Mary Carter Righter's granddaughter
Mary Farrar, has entered Abbot. She is the
daughter of Elizabeth Righter Farrar 1925.

On September 6, Mary B. Hutchings, a
beloved member of the Class of '89, passed
away in Brewer, Maine.

As a class, we mourn her passing. She was
a most faithful friend and loyal member of
the Alumnae Association, who cannot be
replaced.

Annis Spencer Gilbert

1891

'91 was represented by one member (the
reunion chairman), at its fifty- fifth reunion.

I know the members of '91 will enjoy reading

of Commencement in the October Bulletin.

Annie Bull Hardenbergh

1892

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Jane B. Car-
penter, 32 Shepard St., Apt. 22, Cambridge,
Mass.

1893

Myrtie Woodman Lane is living with her
daughter in Fond du Lac, Wise. She keeps
up her study in piano besides some concert
playing. She hopes to start teaching her
grandson 2^ years old!

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Harry R.
Miles (Anna Nettleton), 4 Rock Ledge
Drive, Stamford, Conn.

1894

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Doremus
Scudder (Mabel Bosher), 133 West Ninth
St., Claremont, Cal.

1895

Marian Hall Bailey and her husband Albert
E. Bailey, celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary on June 23, with a gathering of
children and grandchildren.

1896

The Fifty year class met for its reunion in
And over with seven present; Helen Mar land
Bradbury, Harriet Dockrill Bennett, Lillian
Franklin Carr, Ruth Loring Conant, Florence
Holt, Grace Pearson Preston, and Sara Jack-
son Smith.

We were 19 strong in 1896 with two col-
lege preparatory students who were not
then considered worthy of receiving diplo-
mas. Five of our number have died and of
the sixteen living, two are invalids, two at
too great a distance to attend reunion. Of a
possible twelve there were here seven. To
look forward to fifty years of living under
any circumstances would seem like climbing
a mountain with the road rising steeply up-
hill all the way. But to look back as we have
done the resting places on the terraces are so
much more in our memories. There have
been gains and losses; why, after careful
inquiry I do not find that any one of us owns
a pretty little white flannel petticoat now!
As for gains, who among us has not added
pounds. We have had twenty children and

the list of grandchildren is not yet complete.
We have lived through two wars with all the
griefs and sorrows. How we have done our
best to save, knit and garden. We have sent
a few of our sons to this last war.

What Abbot contributed to our strength
of body, mind and spirit we all know, for
each of us learned lessons here that have
kept us upright and outgiving. Miss Kelsey
was amused when I told her that what I
learned in her geometry class helped me to
cut out my little children's clothes.

I could tell you of many fine accomplish-
ments of different members of '96, of social
service workers; of teachers who were the
inspiration of their pupils; of those with no
children of their own who were wonderful
mothers to the children of others. Of hobbies
and travels, one of us even went to Scotland
to play her favorite game of golf; of one who
has been seeking a red iris; one collects
modern poetry. One beloved member has
made our class her hobby and kept us all
informed of each other with her letters of
golden gossip, our secretary through the
whole fifty years!

So here in brief is the tale of some loyal
Abbot daughters.

Lillian Franklin Carr

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Henry V.
Conant (Ruth Loring), 914 High St., Ded-
ham.

1897

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Alexander
Bunce (Gertrude Ware), R.F.D. 1, Rock-
ville, Conn.

1898

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Robert W.
Dunbar (Selina Cook), 3 Elk St., Apt. 7,
Albany, N. Y.

1900

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Arthur P.
Spear (Grace Chapman), 156 Winchester
St., Brookline.

Have we your correct address? Please
send with news notes to the Alumnae Office.

1901

Twelve of our original group of twenty-
three members were present for our 45th
anniversary reunion. In addition Miss Nellie
Mason and Miss Helen Chickering, whom
we proudly claim as honorary members,
met with us for the Alumnae Luncheon, and

Mercer Mason Kemper and Honora Spalding
of 1902, close friends of past and present
years, joined in our reminiscences and de-
liberations. The thoughtful generous hospi-
tality of Delight Hall Gage was a very special
feature throughout. She and Miss Twichell
made us feel as if their home was ours, too,
for rest, refreshment, or good company.

Our class "get together" at Delight's
with its renewal of friendships, shared inter-
ests and present-day news was a heart-warm-
ing experience. Letters brought absent mem-
bers near. Teaching, administration, medi-
cine, painting, mountain climbing, home
making, community interests in great variety
have kept us busy through the years.

Faith Leonard Holden and Katharine
Clark Canfield rejoice in the safe return of
their sons from over-seas war service, Kath-
arine's son after a long imprisonment in
Japan.

The changes and improvements in the
school interested us greatly, confirming our
belief that all is in good hands. The delicious
dinner in the new dining hall so charmingly
served by the present students, gave an ap-
preciated chance to participate in the life
there today; and later, Miss Chickering' s
room in the Library seemed to bring to us
something of her welcome as we settled our-
selves to further reminisce, to plan for a class
reunion gift in her memory and to talk about
coming back the next time.

Evelyn Carter Giles

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Helen Hale,
86 Knox St., Lawrence.

1902

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Hezekiah
Poore (Mildred Mooers), 37 Ames St., Law-
rence.

1904

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. William O.
Pettit (Elizabeth Winsor), 186 Livingston
Ave., Brunswick, N.J.

1906

The class of 1906 had a very happy 40th
reunion, ten members being present with
three from the class of 1907. Nineteen chil-
dren have produced a goodly number of
grandchildren to the credit of the class, so
photographs were much in evidence, and
past and present were closely entwined in
reminisences, and the complex problems of
life today.

These enduring friendships, begun so
many years ago, are evidence of the truth
of Disraeli's words, "Friendship is the gift
of the gods, and the most precious boon to
man."

Persis Mackintire Carr has joined the
ranks of the grandmothers with the arrival
of a daughter Christine, to her son Lt.
Winthrop W. Carr, on July 19. Lt. Carr is on
duty on the cruiser Juneau, with home base
at Portland, Maine.

Persis' husband, Homer D. Carr, died
suddenly September 29.

1908

Winifred Ogden Lindley sends a report of
her family. "On June 1, Winifred Jr. was
married to Richard Snyder. John Lindley
Jr. now out of the army is working in Spring-
field, Vt. Nelson lives in Natick but plans to
go to Columbia to take a graduate degree in
Hospital Administration.

1909

Helen Mills Farnsworth's daughter Re-
becca, was married to Shailer Avery on
September 14.

1910

Ruth Murray Moore's daughter Barbara,
was married to Richard W. Hersey, on
June 8.

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Myron G.
Darby (Ethel Reigeluth) 100 Tanglewylde
Ave., Bronxville, N. Y.

1911

Dear 191 1 : Well we did talk about all you
absent people — but what we said were the
nicest things; how we missed you, and how
we hoped that next reunion you would be
with us.

Those present were: Henrietta Weist Zaner,
Jessie Wightman Jones, Ethel Swain Smith,
Rebecca Newton Weeden, Margaret Cope-
land, Marion Brown, Ruth Miles Thompson,
Edith Johnson Donald and Dorothy Bigelow
Arms. We spent the afternoon relaxing and
reading letters you had sent. It was wonder-
ful to catch up on news from some who had
been silent for 35 years. Miss Hearsey gave
us a real treat, in inviting us to the Saturday
night dinner in the lovely Bailey Dining
room, and we had a big round table all to
ourselves.

It is a happy memory, and hearing from
all but one member of our class was a fine

record; one which we were proud to report
at the Alumnae meeting. Now we have found
some of you again please don't let us lose
touch, but begin to plan for 1951 !

Biggie

Persis Bodwell Millspaugh has done a great
deal of Red Cross and Motor Corps work.
Doris Brown Ayers sent a picture of her hand-
some son, Bill, who was shot down and made
a prisoner of war in Germany, but who is
now home. Marion Brown is Lt. Gov. in the
4th district of Quota. She is also Head of the
Romance Language Dept. in the Lawrence
High School. Dora Hays Pym lives on a 99
acre estate, her son and daughter manage
the farm end, and she is very husy. Borghild
//o/Lyman, another from whom we had not
heard in years, has 4 children, two girls and
two boys, and three grandchildren, imagine
that! She sends love to all.

Miriam Howard Bushnell could not come
since her son, John was married at reunion
time. Mary Hull Lewis's husband is with the
Washington Board of Trade. Frances Husel-
ton Shaw lived in Florida for five years and
is now back in Pittsburgh. Katharine Ord-
way Parker's two sons are owning and editing
the Chicopee Herald, a weekly paper. At the
time she wrote she was housing and feeding
ten people and two dogs! In these days of
food shortages.

Edith Seccomb Young's three grandchildren
spent the summer with her, so she couldn't
leave to come to reunion. Jessie Wightman
Jones' daughter Doris Jones Hannegan was
celebrating her 5th reunion at same time as
her mother's reunion. Jessie's youngest
daughter Rosemary, has entered Abbot this
fall. Corinne Willard Dresser's son W 7 illard,
has just returned from three years in Europe.

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Douglas Don-
ald (Edith Johnson), 8 Carisbrooke St.,
Andover.

1913

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Margaret
Wilkins, 279 N. Euclid Ave., Pasadena, Cal.

1916

"My part in our 30th reunion started
early when on Wednesday morning Emmie
Stohn Larrabee picked me off a train at
Manchester for a beautiful drive across the
end of Lake Winnipesaukee to Denmark,
Maine, where Eugenia had opened 'Blazing
Trail' (her camp for teen age girls), for our
pre-reunion reunion.

"Hardly had we time to stake our claims to
the two best beds in camp and don dungarees
before climbing into the truck with 'Uncle
Harry,' Chum and Skipper, the two dogs
plus every one else in camp to go to the res-
cue of Louise King Childs who arrived shame-
facedly on foot to report her car in a ditch
down the road apace. Getting Louise out of
the mud was but the opening chapter of
three jolly days of camp life not the least
bit dulled by the rainy weather and a mud
rutted road to town. Grace Merrill Emery
and 'Dot Pill' Bartlett and Mildred Jenkins
Dalrymple, Charlotte Eaton and Ada
Brewster Brooks arrived singly and in pairs
to make a total of the nice number often.

"On Saturday our cavalcade of six cars
reached Andover in time for part of the
morning annual meeting, and I think we
were fairly orthodox for the rest of the day at
Abbot. Other members of the class joined us
at Abbot; Vera Allen, Helene Hardy Bobst,
Esther Van Dervoort Howe, Louise Kimball
Jenkins, whose daughter Carolyn is one of
the new girls, Katherine Odell Randell and
Eleanor Frary Rogers.

"The class supper at 'Fieldstones' was
noisy with wagging of tongues and seems to
have talked me right out of reunion, for
Saturday evening found me calling on Miss
Mason who produced a most wonderful
thunder storm to knock out lights and tele-
phone and down a live wire in front of my
sleeping quarters. Very exciting! Sunday
morning 'Pilly' and I disappeared in the
direction of the North Shore for visit with
Marian Bayley Buchanan '13.

"All of which tells little of Abbot and re-
union, so my best advice is that you com-
plain to one or more of the above mentioned
classmates and ask for more and better de-
tails. 'Love'n' kisses' just the same."

Ted

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. James E.
Downs (Laura Cheever), Bancroft Rd.,
Andover.

Are you moving? Please send correct ad-
ress to Alumnae Office.

1917

191 7 has two daughters in Abbot this fall.
Harriet Lattin, daughter of Cornelia New-
comb Lattin; and Nancy Nalle, daughter of
Harriet Balfe Nalle.

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Oliver D.
Wescott (Dorothy Small), 84 Main St.,
Nantucket.

1918

Phoebe Reese, daughter of Martha Miller
Reese was chosen president of Baldwin
School last spring.

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. George J.
Cutler (Velma Rowell), 45 Eliot St., Jamaica
Plain.

1919

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Grace L.
Boynton (Grace Leyser), 30 Engle St.,
Tenafly,N.J.

1920

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Beverly
Hubbard (Muriel Moxley), 172 Putnam
Ave., Hamden, Conn.

1921

The class of 1921 celebrated its twenty-
fifth reunion and thoroughly enjoyed every
moment. There were twenty- three present
at the alumnae luncheon and it was wonder-
ful to be together again! The years rolled
away and before we knew it we picked up
each friendship just where we had left it,
a day, a month, or years before.

We found we needed no wheel chairs, nor
canes, and had no grandchildren; however
we did claim thirty-seven children. Louise
Van De Voort Sweet came all the way from
Kansas City (her daughter was in the gradu-
ating class), and Helen Norpell Price from
Chicago.

As we sat together in Abbot Chapel during
the alumnae meeting many a thought went
back to chapel service twenty-five years ago
and in memory we saw Miss Bailey, Miss
Kelsey and many other dear faces.

We had our picture taken and regardless
of how we look to others, to one another we
seem, at least, remarkably "well preserved."

The class had twenty-one present at the
reunion banquet at "Fieldstones," to which
the Thompson twins came wearing the
garden party hats worn to their graduation
garden party twenty-five years ago.

The only business was to elect Frances

Gasser Stover reunion chairman for 1951 !

Everyone was full of praise for Miss Hearsey,

and proud to proclaim herself an Abbot girl.

Marion Kimball Bigelow

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. David H.
Bigelow (Marion Kimball), 326 Highland
St., West Newton.

1922

Alice Tower Kirby writes that her husband
is manager of the Travel Service in Orange,
and she is one of the proofreaders for the
Athol Daily News. Afternoons she takes
charge of the circulation, and of the news
boys in Orange.

1923

From the Harvard Alumni Bulletin we quote
the following: "In the combined field of
History and Greek, Sterling Dow (husband
of Elizabeth Flagg), now advances to full
professional status. Already, at the age of
forty-three, an outstanding scholar in this
country in Greek history and epigraphy, he
was recently elected president of the Archae-
logical Institute of America."

Dee Osborne Hall's son Jack has made the
varsity baseball team at Lawrenceville
School.

Helen Sinclaire, younger daughter of
Mary Swartwood Sinclaire, has joined her
sister Mary Carroll at Abbot.

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Sterling Dow
(Elizabeth Flagg), 36 Holden St., Cam-
bridge.

1924

Margaret MacDonald Vester's daughter
Johanna is attending Stephens College, and
Gerhard, ten years, is in school in Clear-
water.

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. A. John
Holden (Polly Bullard), 39 No. Pleasant
St., Middlebury, Vermont.

1925

Mary Farrar, daughter of Elizabeth
Righter Farrar, has entered Abbot.

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. George B.
Beveridge (Charlotte Hanna), Sanford-
town Rd., Redding, Conn.

The Alumnae Office is glad to answer any
request for names or addresses. Be sure your
correct address is listed.

1926

Sixteen members of the class attended the
Alumnae Luncheon and their class business
meeting held later at the home of Frances
Flagg Sanborn. Alice Perry was elected the
new secretary. It was voted to send red roses
to the class of '86, which class in turn sent
red roses to' 2 6 for their table at the luncheon.

Thirty-one in the class arc married, and
there were reported thirty-five children.

Ruth Katzmann Pope gave a very interest-
ing talk about her terrible trip home from
Germany a year ago in January. Anstiss
Bowser Wagner is working in a research
laboratory in a hospital in Boston. Elinor
Mahoney Smith's husband is an architect,
they have one son aged seven, she is on the
board of the Salem Home for Aged Women,
the Salem Animal Rescue League and on
the Wenham Village Improvement League.

Florence MacDougall Ranney had planned
to go to the reunion, but her husband was
ill. She is a past president of the White Street
School P.T.A., and is now on the Executive
Board of the Council of P.T.A.'s in Spring-
field. She has two girls. Olive Rogers Smith
had planned to attend but was called to
Chicago because of the death of her sister
Gladys. She has one little girl.

Jane Ruth Hovey had just returned from a
three months trip to Cal. She is active in
Republican politics. Flossie Allen Needham
is president of the Manchester, N.H. Wom-
en's Club. Faunty Flagg Sanborn has just
finished her term as president of the Benevo-
lence Society of the Phillips Andover Facul-
ty. Flora Skinner and Alice Perry have been
very active in the Mass. Women's Corps.

Letters from the following were read, all
expressing their disappointment in not being
able to attend. Gretchen Vanderschmit
wrote her class-summer school was so crow-
ded she couldn't leave. Emily Gage is parish
secretary at St. Paul's Church, Norwalk,
Conn. She is doing some writing and had a
vignette in the American Magazine in Decem-
ber. Sue Loizeaux was very busy dismant-
ling her large home which she was trying to
sell.

Dorothy Pease worked for the U.S.O.
Travellers Aid for 4^ years, had resigned in
January and now has a temporary child wel-
fare job.

Gracie Griffin Westmore is living in Presque
Isle, Maine, where her husband is managing
the Northeastland Hotel. She has three
girls, Lucy Jane 12, Cynthia Ann 10, and
Nancy 7. Her niece Joyce Griffin has entered
Abbot. Adelaide Black is now Dean of
Women at the Katharine Gibbs School in
New York. Dorothy Gillette Henley couldn't
attend because she was going to Georgia
where her husband was to receive a D.D.

degree. She has two girls, one 15^ who
attended the Northfield School for Girls,
and one 12. Carlotta Sloper was assistant
hostess at the Y.W.G.A. Snack Bar in New
Britain.

Helen Larson has four dogs of her own
and runs a beauty shop for Kerry Blues. She
owns the champion Kerry Blue in her section
of the country. Edith Bullen Creden said she
had been doing war work connected with
the A.W.V.S. branch in Chicago. She has
a 93^ year old boy Jack, two Scotties and
eight goldfish! Jean Donald is a medical
Social consultant for the State Health Dept.
of N.C. She recently resigned from the Red
Cross where she was assigned as Field Di-
rector at Camp Upton Convalescent Hos-
pital.

Gertrude Craik Barna went to Monte
Carlo last January with her mother and
husband. Her address is Villa Carmellia,
Ave., St. Roman, Monte Carlo, Monaco,
France. She is raising oranges, olives etc.,
and extends a cordial invitation to all 26ers
to visit her there.

M. Alice Perry
1927

Kay Farlow Hutchinson and her family are
back "in the gold mining game in the high
Sierras, in quite the most magnificent
country we have yet found. My husband is
Supt. of the Brush Creek Mine at Goodyears
Bar, Cal."

. Helen Dyer Peirce writes that her husband
is still in the service. They have bought a
house in Auburndale, on the Charles River.

1928

Josephine Paret Barrett's husband has
rejoined the Air Corps, as a regular Army
officer. She is living for the present in Ham-
den, Conn.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Arm-
strong (Elizabeth Schuh) a third child and
second daughter Ellen, January 25.

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Emily Sloper,
56 Russell St., New Britain, Conn.

1930

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Frank Johnson
(Ruth Baker) a second son, Alan Baker,
April 1 1 . Frank Jr. is eleven, and Nancy Lee
is eight years old.

Married: Donna Brace Latham to Louis
Francis Kroeck, June 29. She is living in
Chicago.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. George Guild
(Betty Brown), a second child, a daughter
Barbara, July 31. Betty says, "Please put
Barbara on the entrance list for the appro-
priate year!"

Barbara Lord Mathias is in New Haven
where her husband is Director of Yale
Studies for Returning Veterans.

Marianna Smith Hile wrote of the death of
her youngest daughter Sarah in April, after
a prolonged illness. She is living in Ann
Arbor where her husband is in business.

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Jack R. War-
wick (Mary Jane Owsley), 26 Ledgewood
Rd., Bronxville, N. Y.

1931

The ten of us who returned to Abbot for
our fifteenth, are already making plans for
our twentieth reunion. In spite of the heat
we all had a wonderful time. Mary Bacon,
Ruth Cann Baker and her daughter Marjorie.
Kit Allen Babson and I stayed with Emily
Bullock, where we stayed up until the wee
small hours talking over news of our class-
mates. After the Alumnae luncheon, and
picture taking, the class went to Emily's for
tea, and an informal business meeting. Mary
Bacon was made co-treasurer with Gertrud
Van Peursem Bell. We voted a gift from the
class treasury to start a scholarship fund for
the benefit of an Abbot daughter. Faith
Chipman Parker was elected re-union chair-
man for our twentieth. Will see you then!

Doris Allen Carroll

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. James D. Holmes
(Nancy Carr), a daughter Alice Davidson,
June 7.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Philip G. Bell
(Gertrud Van Peursem), a daughter,
Margaret Graham June 12.

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Francis Hol-
land (Barbara Graham), 644 Orchard St.
East Lansing, Michigan.

1932

Isabel Arms is studying at the New Eng-
land Conservatory of Music in Boston.

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Dorothy
Richardson, Boston Rd., Billerica.

1933

Margaret Chase Johnson sends news of her
family now living at St. George, Staten
Island, N. Y. "In December '45 my husband
returned from overseas duty with the Marine

Corps, and returned to his civilian job. J
Continued as educational consultant with
i lie New York Association ol I Jay Xurseric- .

Spring found us well launf bed on a strenuous
ichedulc of political activics and on August

20th he won the Republican nomination
lor the State Senate 'when In < rved horr;

IO40-I942) "

Frames Mcdarry Ogg has three children
Robin 9, Duncan 6, and Caroline 1 j/£ years
old. Her husband is Sales Engineer at the
.Norton (Jo. in Worcester.

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Robert D.
Johnson ^Margaret Chase;, 100 Stuyvesant
Place, St. George, Staten Island, X. Y.

1936

On June H, nine of our class of twenty-
eight returned for our tenth reunion. None
of us could actually realize that it had been
ten short years since we joined the ranks of
Abbot alumnae. The seven were: Mary
Dooley, Lucy Hawkes Larnson, Sally Scales
Phelan, Polly Spear Chapin, Mary Swan,
Mary Trqfton Simonds and Sylvia Wright
Poole.

After all the planned alumnae activities
we gathered at Fieldstones where we gleaned
all possible news of our class. Charlotte Dane
was married this spring in Rhode Island,
Ann Dodge is living in New York and loving
her newspaper work. Eleanor Wells is also
in New York working. Barbara Reinhart Liv-
ingston has found a house at 41 Kent Place,
Summit, X. J., and was just getting settled.
Anne Russell Loring is still living in Moores-
town, X.J. but now has her husband home,
and a new address at 2 W. Maple Ave. Mary
Trajton Simonds is with her husband at 40
Andover St., Cambridge, where John is
finishing graduate work, and Sylvia Wright
Poole is also settled after the war at 121
Farrington Ave., Phillipse Manor, Xo.
Tarrytown, X. Y. We all had a wonderful
reunion but missed you who could not be
with us. Let's plan now on getting back for
our 15th!

Sylvia Wright Poole

Married: Charlotte Dane to John Egbert
Breton, April 20.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Wetherbee Lam-
son (Lucy Hawkesj a daughter Fay, June 7,

1945-

Betty Jamieson Crandell reports a son John

Underhill Jr., four, and a daughter Cathy
Wheeler, a year old.

Mary Murray was married on January 2,
[944 to Loyal Martin Griffin Jr., a (

mate in Medical School. I completed

their coursa together, and live now in San

Franr 1 < >,.

Engaged: Harriott Cole to Paul I . I

1937

Lucy Hulburd is in London where ihi
technical assistant to the architect of tl
London County Council, She graduated
from the Harvard Architectural School in
January 1945.

Married: Elizabeth McArdle to John
Richard McDerrnott.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Porter C. Srnith-
Petersen ''Mary Emily Pettingill] a second
child, a daughter Patricia Cushing, August
26.

Married: Louise Ridey Floyd to Dr. Hor-
ton Guyford Stever, June 29.

Married: Priscilla Wonson to Clifford
Hitchcock Hahn, June 1 1 .

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Arthur W.
Tucker (Martha E. Ransom;, 632 Creat
Plain Rd., Xeedham.

1938

Married: Marie Appleby to Malcolm D.
Severance, June 1.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Fred Van Buren
Archer Jr., f Marian Lawson; a fourth son,
Robert Gould, July 1 1 .

Married: Virginia Rice to John William
Dunn, June 15.

Married: Muriel Wood to John Winet,
April 27.

School catalogues mailed on request.
Have you news for February Bulletin'.

1939

MaryAWzDanos has a Graduate Assistant-
ship in Geology in Penn State College, while
her husband is completing his degree in
Physics.

Born: to Mr. and Mrs. W. Selby Harney
Jr. f Jeanne Waughj a daughter, Joan Waugh
June 15.

1940

Married: Eleanor Balcke to Harry Charles
Thompson, May 25. Mr. Thompson is doing
publicity and public relations work for the
Xewell-Emmett Co., in Xew York. Eleanor
is working for the Smith College 75th An-
niversary Fund in Xew York.

Married: Carolyn Bittner to William B.
M. Duane August 29. She will live in Con-
necticut while her husband resumes his
studies in Wesleyan University.

Married: Frances Chandler to Charles
Warren Partridge Jr. June 8, 1945. She is in
Munich, Germany, for three years, while her
husband has a tour of duty.

Married: Sarah Cole to Herbert Sears
Tuckerman, June 15. Her attendants were
her sisters, Ann Cole Gannett '33, Harriott
'36 and Eleanor '41.

Married: Phyllis Crocker to Clifford
Wadsworth England, April 6.

Married: Carolyn Cross to Roger Wel-
lington Robbins, May 18. Mr. Robbins is a
administrative engineer at the Submarine
Signal Co. in Boston.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Boutin
(Charlotte Downey) a daughter Sue Louise,
March 29. Dr. Boutin has been assigned to
the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington.

Engaged: Barbara Fowler to Robert
George Borden Jr.

Married: Marguerite Hall to Jesse Win-
fred Crum USN October 5, in Washington,
D. C.

Engaged: Mary Howard to Edmund W.
Nutting.

Married: Dorothy Garry to Louis May-
nard War lick, May 18.

Engaged: Anne Rivinius to Robert Pres-
cott Wild.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Franklin R. Hoar
(Doris Sawyer), a second child, and son
Franklin Rockwood Jr., August 18.

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Mary Howard,
213 Commonwealth Ave., Apt. io, Boston.

Put the Alumnae Office on your list for
wedding announcements.

1941

Dear Group: 'Tis I again with a wee bit of
news. The turnout for the Fifth Reunion was
not as good as we expected. I certainly
would like to have seen a lot more of my old
friends. Those who came for the celebration
were Julie Nelson Williams (she's lost 45 lbs.,
her hair is much darker and she curls it)
golly, she's an attractive girl, her bouncing
baby boy appears to be extremely healthy.
Her hubby will be back from Africa next
month and then Julie says he'll roam no
more alone. Addie Waterhouse McKay (pro-

nounced McKi — it's Scotch) has gained 38
lbs., she and her hubby are living with the
Waterhouses at present. Addie, Julie, Gumpy
my cocker spaniel, and I drove up for the
reunion in Julie's brand new 1946 Mercury.
First we were greeted by Nancy Kelly, Joan
Waugh, Franny Troub (they haven't
changed a bit), Bonney Wilson (snapshots
of her baby girl are beautiful, and Phil
Campbell Bradley — her 2^ year old son
couldn't have more personality. Phil and
her hubby are happily settled in their own
home. Emily Ruth Poynter and Helen
Stott joined us, it was good to see them plus
Alda Grieco. Stotti's family has moved into
a dream house all their own up on "the
hill."

Friday night was Rally Night, we had a
chance to greet our old friends like Miss
Hearsey, Miss Sweeney, Miss Hancock, Miss
Tucker, Miss Humes and numerous others.
We missed Miss Rath and it was a happy
day to see Miss Carpenter on Sunday.
Saturday we all gathered for the tremendous
Alumnae luncheon. Afterwards we went to
dip up the treasure — rather Theodore did
the digging — it was in vain. . .we couldn't
find it. Dorie Jones Hannegan arrived; we
saw her youngest son on our return trip to
New York. The treasure was found later, but
half the class jumped the gun and missed the
sentimentality of all gathering around for the
peep.

If an Abbot girl is truly an Abbot girl I
sincerely believe she can find a certain peace,
understanding and warmth that can't be
bought or obtained at any price anywhere
except at Abbot. I found it for those few
days. . .and that's all the gush I'll say for
now.

Keep us posted, group, by your postcards,
letters, newspapers clippings, announce-
ments, the Bulletin can keep us informed
about each other. Wishing you all the best
of what the world has to offer and hoping
that another five years won't elapse before
we meet again.

Sue Long Kremer

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Burr
(Charlotte Eaton) a son, Robert Eaton,
May 26.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Addison L. Win-
ship 2nd (Christine Hill) a daughter Sarah,
July 24.

Married: Nancy Kelley to David Chap-
man Park August 24.

Margaret Little Dice is living in Austin,
Texas, where her husband is teaching in the
University.

Married: Barbara Robjent to Capt. Her-
bert Pickford Moore, August 1 7. Among her
attendants were Mary Carroll O'Connell
'43, and Margaret McFarlin '42.

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Frederick S.
Kremer (Sue Long), 130 East 75th St.,
New York, N. Y.

1942

Married: Irene Abbott to Kenneth Paul
McPherson, September 7.

Marilyn Barlow was awarded the Helen
Wieand Cole Graduate Scholarship at her
graduation from Wheaton College in June.
She is now with a group of twenty-five stu-
dents under the guidance of the University
of Delaware studying French at the Univer-
sity of Geneva, Switzerland.

Married: Mary Margaret Boynton to
Robert Clouston MacPherson, June 19.

Married: Mary Elizabeth Dunaway to
Donald Love Burnham, July 5.

Married: Diantha Hamilton to Com-
mander Joseph Matthew McDowell, May 3.

Married: Virginia Fong to Edward Yue
Chan, May 1 2 .

Married: Elizabeth Gorsuch to Daniel
David White.

Elizabeth Lytle graduated from Cornell
University in June. She is attending Katha-
rine Gibbs School in New York.

Married: Theodora Manning to Herbert
Maurice Alexander, April 27.

Married: Edith Ninomiya to Louis Hague,
January 13. Edith's address is: Counseling
Unit 2, Separation Center, Camp Beale,
Cal.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. John A. Hemlet
(Emma Ann Todd), a son, Gregory Todd-
Eaton, August 23.

Married: Juliette Weston to Robert Bow-
en Suhr, June 29.

Engaged: Ann Zeitung to Nathan Strong
Hale.

Sally Zimmermann is Society Editor and
general handyman on the Daily Journal, in
the pioneer lumber town of International
Falls, Minnesota.

1943

Married: Amelia Daves to S. L. Kopald
Jr., August 5.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Davis

(Alva Houston) a son, Richard Houston,
July 26.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Lancer R. \\ 'in-
rich (Louise Swcnning) a son, Lancer Rich"
ard Jr., October 12, 1 945.

1944

Engaged: Ruth Kirstein to Daniel Tur-
kanis.

Charlotte Leland is taking the course in
Occupational Therapy at Milwaukee Down-
er College.

Married: Cynthia Teel (aff.) to David
Jameson Vail, August 12.

1945

Married: Gretchen Fuller to Donald
Frazier, July 28. Her classmates, Sally Leav-
itt, Marjorie Milne and Helen Norris were
bridesmaids.

Engaged: Barbara Haserick to Alan
Howard Johnson.

Engaged: Edith Walker (aff.) to Francis
Bourne Upham III.

Holly Welles writes of an interesting sum-
mer. "I was with the American Youth
Hostel group that went over to do recon-
struction work on European Hostels. We
worked in Holland, Luxembourg and South-
ern France, in the Pyrenees, getting a chance
to bike through Belgium and also to spend
two nights in Geneva. We were a group of
100 to begin with but this divided into di-
visions of 34 as soon as we reached Europe,
each division starting in one of the three
countries I mentioned, working there two
weeks, and then passing on to another coun-
try for another two weeks, and so forth. We
took over our own food and bicycles, the
idea being to hostel in between work pro-
jects. It certainly was an interesting and
worthwhile summer.

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Shirley Som-
mer, 1367 Brown Hills Rd., Rockford, Illin-
ois.

1946

Engaged: Gertrude Stearns (aff. '46) to
John Heywood.

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Mary Burton,
33 Afterglow Way, Montclair, N. J.

CLASS OF 1946

Sally Allen, Briar cliff Junior College
Barbara Biddle, Connecticut

Patricia Bowne, Public Relations work, Tele-
phone Co.
Ellen Brumback, Wellesley
Nancy Burns, Radcliffe
Mary Burton, Scripps
Noma Clayton, Vassar
Jenny Copeland, Wells
Louise Doyle, Regis
Virginia Finney, Wellesley
Florence Fry ling, Briar cliff Junior College
Frances Gorham, Katharine Gibbs, Boston
Barbara Graf, Russell Sage College
Muriel Greene, Smith
Nancy Hellweg, Bennington
Elsa Hinchman, Bennington
Patricia Hogan, Bennington
Mary Howe, Mt. Holyoke
Katherine Johnson, Wheaton
Patty Keefer, Wellesley
Dorothy King, Wheaton
Greta Leinbach, Bennett Junior College

Frances Little, University of Michigan

Joyce Merrick, Wheaton

Georgia Lee Mills {college not reported)

Cynthia Noone, Boston University

Sally North, Wellesley

Sally Power, Smith

Phyllis Rairdon, Connecticut

Luetta Robertson, Wellesley

Elizabeth Ross, Elmira College

Marjorie Sommer, Rollins

Gail Sullivan, Mt. Holyoke

Carolyn Teeson, Syracuse University

Polly Thomas, Vassar

Nancy Thomas, Wellesley

Marian Troub, Barnard

Mavis Twomey, Katharine Gibbs, Boston

Hope Whitcomb, Finch Junior College

Elizabeth Woodruff, University of Louisville

Genevieve Wright, Rollins

Susan Wright, Wellesley

Record of War Service

Please fill out and return as soon as possible to the
Alumnae Office, Abbot Academy, Andover, Mass.

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Married Name

Address

Postal District No.

Branch and Name of Service : Army Navy Marines

Coast Guard Medical Air .

Red Cross

Rank:

Promotions:

Date of Entering

Date of Discharge

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Tear out and mail before January 10, to the Alumnae Office, Abbot
Academy, Andover, Mass.

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Abbot Academy Bulletin

February

1947

Abbot Academy Alumnae Association

Associate Member of the American Alumni Council

OFFICERS, 1 946- 1 948

President

Mrs. Frank C. d'Elseaux
(Virginia Gay)
12 Sheffield Rd.
Winchester, Mass.

Vice-presidents

Mrs. Douglas Donald
(Edith Johnson)
8 Carisbrooke Street
Andover, Mass.

Mrs. Russell T. Loesch
(Polly Francis)
3 Sears Avenue
Melrose Highlands, Mass.

Mrs. Arthur W. Tucker
(Martha Elizabeth Ransom)
632 Great Plain Road
Needham, Mass.

Clerk

Mrs. George K. Sanborn
(Frances Flagg)
Andover, Mass.

Treasurer

Mrs. Dino Olivetti
(Rosamond Castle)
Andover, Mass.

Social Secretary

Mrs. Reeve Chipman
(Constance Parker)
5 Morton Street
Andover, Mass.

Executive Secretary

Miss Marion MgPherson
%}/2 Summer Street
Andover, Mass.

ALUMNAE TRUSTEES

I942-I94 8
Miss Margaret Van Voorhis
304 Lexington Avenue
New York City, N. Y.

I945-I95I
Mrs. Lenert W. Henry
(Helen Allen)
246 Glen Road
Weston 93, Mass.

ABBOT CLUB PRESIDENTS

BOSTON

Mrs. Ernest F. Tillson
(Gwendolyn Bloomfield)
50 Windsor Road
Wellesley Hills, Mass.

CHICAGO

Mrs. J. Allen Lind

(Mary Simpson)
1239 Asbury Avenue
Winnetka, 111.

CONNECTICUT

Miss Sara G. Peck
20 Fair view Terrace
Derby, Conn.

DETROIT

Mrs. Thomas Nalle
(Harriet Balfe)
1 2 1 1 Willow Lane
Birmingham, Mich.

MAINE, EASTERN

Mrs. John H. McLoon
(Frances McDougall)
1 1 1 Beech St.
Rockland, Maine

MAINE, WESTERN
Mrs. Frank N. Wells
(Louise Houghton)
Portland, Maine

NEW YORK
Miss Gertrude E. Holbrook
Stonecrest Apartments
Larchmont, N. Y.

OHIO CENTRAL
Mrs. Paul Meek
(Louise Norpell)
Worthington, Ohio

OHIO, CLEVELAND
Mrs. George Worthington
(Madeleine Fiske)
Chesterland, Ohio

OLD COLONY
Mrs. A. Scudder Moore
(Ruth Murray)
96 South Elm Street
West Bridge water, Mass.

PITTSBURGH
Mrs. George H. Jackson
(Gertrude Miller)
5 1 5 North McKean Street
Butler, Pa.

ABBOT ACADEMY BULLETIN

Series 14

FEBRUARY 1947

Issue 2

Table of Contents

Alumnae Association Luncheon Invitation
Abbot Academy Alumnae Clubs .

Principal News

Past Faculty Notes

Grace Amy Goodman

International Relations at Abbot
The John-Esther Gallery .

School Events

The Senior Glass at Intervale .

A Letter

In Memoriam

Alumnae Association

Class News

Lee Booth '48

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2

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THE EDITORIAL BOARD

Jane B. Carpenter, 1892, honorary

Constance Parker Chipman, 1906, Editor-in-Chief

Marion McPherson, 1918

Virginia Gay d'Elseaux, 1929, ex officio

Published four times yearly, October, February, May, and September, by Abbot Acad-
emy, Andover, Massachusetts.

Entered as second class matter December 12, 1933, at the post office at Andover, Massa-
chusetts, under the act of August 24, 191 2.

The Abbot Alumnae Association

The Boston Abbot Club
cordially invite you to attend a

Spring puncheon

Saturday, March the first

at twelve-thirty o'clock

Hotel Beaconsjield, Brookline

SPECIAL GUESTS

Miss Alice C. Sweeney, Acting Principal

Miss Lucile Tuttle, Dean of Residence

Members of the Senior Class

PROGRAM

Mile. Avant, Hollywood stylist, will give

a one woman style revue, showing how to achieve

economical smartness of dress and hats

Luncheon $2.50. Please send reservations to Mrs. Margaret Nay Gramkow,
609 Washington St., Wellesley, Mass., before February 26.

To reach the Hotel Beaconsfield, 1731 Beacon St., take Beacon St. Reservoir
car at the North Station. Ample parking space.

Abbot Academy Alumnae Clubs

WHY CLUBS? To bring together once or twice a year those who have Abbot as a
common interest; who wish to keep in touch with the school, and maintain the friend-
ships formed there. If there is any community in which live a number of alumnae who
would like to organize and have a representative of the school visit them, please so inform
the Alumnae Office.

Note and attend the activities of clubs this year.

THE BOSTON ABBOT CLUB (est. 1892)
jjth Anniversary

President, Mrs. Gwendolyn Bloomfield Tillson; Vice-presidents, Mrs. Vir-
ginia Gay d'Elseaux, Mrs. Elizabeth Sage Batchelder; Recording Secretary,
Mrs. Nancy Kelley Park; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Marion Ireland Conant;
Treasurer, Mrs. Margaret Nay Gramkow; Auditor, Mrs. Mary Piper Sears;
Program Chairman, Mrs. Faith Chipman Parker; Directors 1946-1948, Barbara
Goss, Mrs. Mary Howard Nutting, Mrs. Jacqueline Proctor de Brun; Direc-
tors 1945-1947, Mrs. Lydia Kunkel Eldredge, Miss Irene Atwood, Mrs. Ruth
Baker Johnson.

Wednesday, January 29, Miss Kate Friskin gave a piano recital at the
College Club, at 2.30 p.m. A social hour with tea followed.

Saturday, March 1, luncheon with the Abbot Alumnae Association, at
the Hotel Beaconsfield, Brookline. Miss Alice C. Sweeney, Miss Lucile
Tuttle and the Senior Class will be the special guests. Program by Mile.
Avant, Hollywood stylist.

Saturday, April 12, Annual meeting at the College Club. Dessert-Coffee
at 1.30 p.m.

THE CHICAGO ABBOT CLUB (est. 1921)

President, Mrs. Mary Simpson Lind; Secretary, Mrs. Edith Bullen Creeden;
Treasurer, Mrs. Margaret Hall Walker.

A luncheon meeting will be held Wednesday, March 19, at Marshall
Field's. Mrs. Chipman will bring the news from Abbot.

THE CONNECTICUT ABBOT CLUB (est. 1923)

President, Miss Sara Peck; Secretary- Treasurer, Mrs. Virginia Lawton
Wolfe. The annual meeting will be held in the spring.

THE DETROIT ABBOT CLUB (est. 1922)

25th Anniversary

President, Mrs. Harriet Balfe Nalle. The Detroit alumnae entertained
Miss Margaret Van Voorhis, alumna trustee, at luncheon on January 3,
at the Women's City Club. Ten alumnae, who came despite bad weather,
greatly enjoyed meeting her, and hearing her report of the school. A business
meeting will be held later.

THE MAINE EASTERN ABBOT CLUB (est. 1926)

President, Mrs. Frances McDougall McLoon; Vice-president, Mrs. Louise
Douglas Hill; Secretary-Treasurer, Mrs. Annetta Richards Bryant. A meeting
will be held in the summer.

THE MAINE WESTERN ABBOT CLUB (est. 1922)

25th Anniversary

President, Mrs. Louise Houghton Wells; Treasurer, Miss Gladys Merrill;
Secretary, Mrs. Gertrude Shackleton Hacker. The Club held a delightful
meeting and tea on November 15, 1946, at the Country House, Falmouth.
Twenty alumnae were present to welcome Mrs. Chipman and Mrs. Helen
Allen Henry, alumna trustee. Mrs. Chipman spoke of the present day school,
and Mrs. Henry "introduced" the members of the Board of Trustees. The
club hopes to have a late spring meeting.

THE NEW YORK ABBOT CLUB (est. 1898)

President, Miss Gertrude Holbrook; Vice-presidents, Mrs. Laura Scudder
Williamson, Mrs. Helga Lundin Buttrick; Recording Secretary, Mrs. Grace
Leyser Boynton; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Mary Jane Owsley Warwick;
Treasurer, Mrs. Ruth Cann Baker; Auditor, Mrs. Despina Plakias Messinisi;
Directors, Mrs. Helen Bradley Hodgkinson, Mrs. Eunice Meigs Pease, Mrs.
Ethel Thompson James.

The Club held a luncheon meeting on December 7, at the Hotel Roose-
velt. Special guests were Mrs. Mary Gorton Darling 1886, and Mrs. Virginia
Gay d'Elseaux, president of the Alumnae Association. Miss Holbrook, presi-
dent, read a letter from Mrs. Harriet Raymond Brosnan telling of the as-
sembling of their famous collection of class letters, on exhibition at the club.
These letters have kept an unbroken sequence for sixty years, comprising a
large volume now. Mrs. Darling reported on the class, as well as bringing her
own greetings. Mrs. d'Elseaux brought the alumnae and school news.
Mrs. Carol Perrin Dunton 1921, then gave a delightful program of readings.
Thirty were present.

The annual meeting will be held on Saturday, April 19, at the Park Lane
Hotel. Miss Margaret Van Voorhis, '18, alumna trustee, will give a song
recital.

THE OHIO CENTRAL ABBOT CLUB (est. 1921)

President, Mrs. Louise Norpell Meek; Secretary, Mrs. Bettina Rollins
Wheeler. A meeting will be held Saturday, March 15, in Columbus, to meet
Mrs. Chipman.

THE OHIO CLEVELAND ABBOT CLUB (est. 1927)

20th Anniversary

President, Mrs. Madeleine Fiske Worthington. On January 2, a few of
the Cleveland group braved bad weather conditions and met Miss Margaret
Van Voorhis at tea at Shaker Square Tavern. She reported a great eagerness
from the alumnae to meet again, and the club hopes to have an annual
meeting later.

THE OLD COLONY ABBOT CLUB, (est. 1924)

President, Mrs. Ruth Murray Moore; Secretary-Treasurer, Mrs. Martha
Wind Finger. The annual meeting will be held in October.

THE PITTSBURGH ABBOT CLUB (est. 1921)

President, Mrs. Gertrude Miller Jackson; Secretary, Mrs. Eliza Atwell
Browne.

Principal News

Miss Hearsey is enjoying her varied vacation. She was at Abbot for the
two opening days of school in September in order to greet the new girls and
their parents and to see the old girls. Afterwards she went to Wellesley to
be with her friend, Miss Ella Keats W 7 hiting, Dean of W r ellesley College.
The middle of October she departed for Quebec and lived with a French
family for six weeks. While there she made a trip to New York and back the
early part of November for meetings of the Headmistresses' Association of
the East. Just before Thanksgiving Miss Hearsey returned to Wellesley and
then spent the Christmas holidays with her sister in New York. From there
she went South visiting in Washington, Maryland, and at Hollins College in
Virginia, her Alma Mater where she had taught before coming to Abbot.
From February twelfth through the fifteenth she will be presiding at meetings
in Atlantic City of the National Association of Principals of Schools for Girls,
of which she has been President these past two years. On the nineteenth of
February she and Miss Whiting, who also will be on a leave of absence, will
sail from New York for Bermuda where they will have a house for three
months. To the delight of all, Miss Hearsey will return in time for Commence-
ment at Abbot.

Past Faculty Notes

Mile. Marthe Baratte, who was at Abbot last year, and whose sister,
Mile. Marie Baratte, is at Abbot this year, is teaching French at Russell
Sage College.

Miss Florence Butterfield has been a recent welcome visitor at Abbot.

Mrs. Alexander Calhoun with Mr. Calhoun left New York the middle
of October and finally sailed from Vancouver to Manila, on a Swedish
freighter, with only ten other passengers. According to present plans Mr.
and Mrs. Calhoun will remain in Manila for some months and may not leave
for India until summer. Their address is % The National City Bank of New
York, % American Consul- General, A.P.O. 501, San Francisco, California.

Miss Mary Carpenter is Dean at the Bouve-Boston School of Physical
Education.

Miss Helen Chickering lives at 1 Punchard Ave., Andover.

Madame Marie Craig lives at 109 Main St., Andover. Greetings and
calls from Abbot friends cheer her greatly.

Miss Ruth Eager, who substituted in the English Department last year,
is at Chatham Hall, Virginia.

Miss Ruth Elvedt, who is with the Physical Education Department at
Mount Holyoke, has published a book on canoeing, entitled "Canoeing
A-Z."

Miss Edith Hedin is working toward her Ph.D. degree from Radcliffe
and Harvard in English and German. She is also teaching two classes of
German at Radcliffe.

Miss Martha Howey is living in San Francisco, with many interests to
keep her busy. Twice a week she returns to the Branson School in Ross, to
teach History of Art. During the summer she and Mrs. Agnes Slocum Biscoe
paid a surprise visit to Andover.

Miss Eleanor Little is on the Radcliffe Library staff this year.

Miss Nellie Mason celebrated her eightieth birthday on January 14. The
many cards, flowers and callers she received all helped to make it a very
happy day.

Miss Ivar Lou Myhr, who substituted in English last year, is head of the
English Department at Ward Belmont Junior College, Nashville, Tennessee.
Miss Jean Nevius is studying this year in New York.

Mrs. Roberta Poland has been teaching science at Deerfield Academy,
Deerfield, Mass., since 1943, when she went there to join her husband who
had become a member of the faculty there the previous year.

Miss Anne Rechnitzer is a member of the German Department at
Wheaton College.

Miss Helen Robinson has entirely recovered from her accident. She
greatly enjoyed a visit at Abbot in the fall.

Mrs. Lucretia Hildreth Saxl has travelled extensively throughout the
United States with her husband on a combined business and pleasure trip
this year. At present they are living at 6 Linnaean St., Cambridge.

Grace Amy Goodman

Secretary to the Principal, September ig^o — December ig^.6

On December twenty-second Miss Goodman died in Pittsburgh, at the
home of her brother where she had gone to spend the holiday. Although she
had appeared to be in good health when she started her journey on the
nineteenth, she was ill with a cold when she arrived, and after only a few
days she suffered a heart attack which proved fatal.

In announcing her death to the students on their return from the
Christmas vacation, Miss Sweeney said : We who worked closely with her and
knew her well are deeply conscious of the difference her absence makes be-
cause we had grown to depend very much on her unique personality, on her
bright and ready presence in the school.

Miss Goodman was a truly punctilious person; she was punctilious not
only in regard to the performance of her duties, but also in the details of her
private living, and in her loyalties. She had the best interests of the school
very much at heart. For instance she had planned to retire, and she would
have given up her work here last summer if she had not seen that we had
particular need of her services this year, if she had not felt that Miss Hearsey
would go away with greater ease of mind and with more confidence in the
smooth running of the offices if she stayed at her post part of this winter. So
the plan was made for her not to leave until March when the enrolment for
next year would be practically completed.

She had thought not to announce her impending departure but simply
to go away, as for the Easter holidays, and not return; because she was a very
selfless and modest person, and she really believed that her absence would
matter or be of interest to very few besides her immediate associates and her
closest friends. Well, she slipped away; and the appreciation we would have
liked to express to her remains unsaid ; but perhaps because she was a person
of unusual reticence it is better so. Certainly I think that we shall retain
longer a sense of her small, neat figure and bright, birdlike ways because they
are etched a little more sharply on our minds and memory through the shock
of her sudden death, because, too, the manner of her going was, in a way,
as quick and considerate and detached as was her living.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AT ABBOT

Premi Arsirvatham, Madras, India; Genevieve Young, New York City; Felicia
Tavares, West Indies; seated, Ines Herrera, Bogota, Colombia.

The John-Esther Gallery

Curator: W. Abbott Cheever

February 1-15, Seventy-five Latin American Prints

February 20, Tentative, Exhibition with Phillips Academy Art classes of Still
Life arrangement contest

March , Exhibition from Abbot's collection of paintings

April 10-24, Nineteenth Century Leaders of Modern Painting

May 15-June 10, Abbot Student Show

School Events

Saturday, January n, Lecture, Mrs. Bonaro Overstreet, "The Art of Gracious
Living."

Sunday, January 12, Vespers, The Reverend A. Graham Baldwin, Minister at
Phillips Academy

Saturday, January 18, Free evening, skating party

Sunday, January ig, The Episcopal Church Tea

Talk, Miss Elizabeth Reser, Representative of the Save the Children
Federation, French Schools

Friday, January 24 to Tuesday, January 28, Mid -Year Examinations

Sunday, January 26, Vespers, Hymn Singing

Tuesday, January 28 to January 30, Seniors at Intervale

Saturday, February 1, Free evening, skating party

Sunday, February 2, Vespers. The Reverend Alfred W. Burns, Lawrence

Saturday, February 8, Concert, Miss Kate Friskin, Pianist

Sunday, February g, Lecture — Mrs. Edward C. Carter, "International As-
sembly of Women"

Saturday, February ij, Abbot Fidelio-Governor Dummer School Concert, and
Dance at Abbot

Sunday, February 16, The Reverend James T. Cleland, D.D., Duke University

Saturday, February 22, Concert, Ralph Sheldon, Pianist

Sunday, February 23,

Friday, February 28, French play, "Les Jours Heureux" by Andre Puget, Ab-
bot and Phillips Academy at Phillips Academy

Saturday, March 1, Second Open Forum

Sunday, March 2, Students Recital

Saturday, March 8, Senior Promenade

Sunday, March g, Vespers, The Reverend John Wallace, Trinitarian Congre-
gational Church, Concord

Saturday, March 15, Students Recital

Sunday, March 16, Vespers, Abbot Christian Association

Saturday, March 22, Senior Play, "Quality Street"

Sunday, March 23, The Reverend John T. Golding, Church of The Redeemer,
Chestnut Hill

Monday, March 24, Gym and Dance Exhibition

Wednesday, March 26 to Tuesday, April 8, Spring Vacation

IMPORTANT SPRING EVENTS

Saturday, April 12, Recital by Miss Kate Friskin and Dorothy Minty, Violinist
Saturday, April ig, Concert by Fidelio and the Exeter Glee Club at Exeter
Saturday, May 3, Abbot Birthday Bazaar
Friday, May 30 to Monday, June 2, Commencement

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A Letter to a Girl
"Who Has Always Heard About Abbot"

Abbot Academy
Dear Janey:

I have heard that you don't want to come to Abbot, and that, as an
alumna daughter you are rather tired of hearing about it. I am an alumna
daughter, too, but the difference is that my Mother made Abbot sound
awfully exciting because she was rather "bad" when she was here. In addi-
tion, she used to tell me lots of anecdotes about the teachers and girls back
in the twenties. So, if you think you're tired of hearing about Abbot ask your
Mother for some of these, You'll love the stories. They so completely won me
over to the idea of coming here that I made Mother send in my application
as soon as I entered high school. Of course Abbot wasn't exactly like her
stories, but I wasn't disappointed with the school.

I don't love Abbot because it's old and has tradition. I don't like the
school because I'll have an easier time getting into college from here than
some other schools. Neither are the varied sports, the educational and cul-
tural opportunities of going to school near Boston the magnets which keep me
here. I realize the advantages of all this, nevertheless, and no doubt you've
been hearing an awful lot about this angle of the school. That is the kind of
thing that makes parents pick a school like Abbot, to be sure, but they aren't
anything without the girls.

Yes, the one best thing about coming to Abbot is meeting so many
wonderful girls. You make "life friendships" here, or at least, lasting ones. I
believe Mother still keeps in touch with some Abbot friends. In high school
you just can't get to know people as well because you don't live with them.
Simple things like playing tennis and going down town with people do much
more to cement friendships than all the parties and things at home. Abbot is
big enough to invite all types and kinds, but, nevertheless, our average girl is
just plain nice, no different from girls most places except that you know her
better.

I don't see what else I can say to change your mind about Abbot, but if
I have said all this right, you should be "rarin' to come.

Sincerely,

Lee Booth '48

In Memoriam

1877

Ellen Emerson, widow of Dr. Otis Cary,
died on December 26, 1946, in Bradford, at
the age of ninety years.

Mrs. Cary's long life was one of notable
service in the missionary field in Japan. She
sailed as a bride in February, 1878, to Japan,
and until 1920 she and her husband worked
and taught among the Japanese people.
She specialized in work among Japanese
women and children, and was lovingly
known among them as "Mother Cary."
After their retirement from the American
Board she and Dr. Cary served among the
Japanese Churches in California and Utah.
Dr. Cary died in 1932, and she returned to
Japan for six years. After that she resided
for a number of years at the Walker Mis-
sionary Home in Auburndale, and more
recently made her home in Bradford. She
leaves three sons and one daughter. Rev.
George E. Cary of Bradford, Dr. Walter Cary
of Dubuque, Iowa, Rev. Frank Cary, Kobe
College, Kobe, Japan and Miss Alice Cary,
secretary for Japan with the American
Board, now in Tokyo. Her granddaughter
Helen Cary May graduated from Abbot in

1935-

> Gifts are being received for a simple me-
morial for Mrs. Cary to be built somewhere
in Japan, a room in a school, or help in re-
storing some church.

1880

May Woodman, widow of Albert Swazey,
died on October 16, 1946, in Portland,
Maine.

1883

Caroline McCandless, widow of Edward
P. Greeley, died September 17, 1946, in
Sewickley, Pa.

1884

Fannie Hardy, widow of Rev. Jacob A.
Eckstorm, died December 31, in Brewer,
Maine.

Mrs. Eckstorm's books on the Indians of
Maine are considered authoritative on that

early history. From her father she inherited
a deep interest and knowledge, which in her
books is made invaluable to readers and re-
search workers interested in that period in
the history of the state.

1886

Ann G. King died December 13, 1946, in
Red Bluff, Cal.

1888

Sarah Foster, wife of the Rev. Frederick
D. Greene, died suddenly in Florida, on
January 31. For many years she and her
husband were missionaries to the Armenians.
She was an unusually friendly person, one
of deep loyalties to her many friends and to
her school.

Besides her husband she is survived by four
sons and fifteen grandchildren. Her oldest
son Joseph, is a chemist in the Lederle Labor-
atory at Peace River, N. Y. David is assistant
principal in a school in Stockton, Cal., Ed-
ward is assistant professor in psychology at
the University of Michigan, and Dr. Phillips
Greene, formerly with the Yale-in-China
hospital, is now Dean of the Long Island
College and Hospital.

1890

Mary L. Sanborn died in 1945.

December 18,

1897

Mary E. Richards died
1946, in Andover.

1916

Rachel Foster, wife of George W. Shaw,
died in August 1 946. Besides her husband she
leaves one daughter Sylvia.

1921

Sylvia Nicholson, wife of the Rev. Val-
entine S. Alison, died on September 22,
1946 in Addison, New York. Besides her
husband she leaves three children, Valen-
tine Jr., Mary Katherine and Thomas Keith
Alison.

The Abbot Alumnae Association

Commencement dates: May 30 to June 2; Alumnae Day May 31.

Each yem returning alumnae are enth itic ovei the experience of
"catching up" with the school and friends. A most sincere invitation u ex-
tended to all alumnae tvho may find it possible to come back this year. Don't
waif, for a special reunion, there is always someone present near your time,
ready to greet you. A warm welcome awaits you from Abbot and the officers
of the Alumnae Association.

I he Alumnae Luncheon wif) be held in Bailey Hall, the beautiful school
dining room at 1 p.m. At 2.45 the Annua) Meeting of the Alumnae Associa-
tion will take place in Abbot Hall. An informal dinner will be served in the
school dining room with the students. Special class reunions may be held at
the luncheon, or arrangements made to be held elsewhere. The Draper
Dramatics will provide a fitting close to the day.

Special notices will be sent out in April, with the full Commencement
program, but it is wise to make room reservations early.

The Board of Trustees

The Hoard of Trustees will hold their next meeting on April 1 1, in An-
dover, at which time opportunity will be provided for them to meet the
faculty of Abbot.

Alumnae Trustees

Margaret Van Voorhis and Helen Allen Henry have greatly enjoyed
their recent meetings with alumnae groups. They hope for further oppor-
tunities.

Coffee Party

The Alumnae Office gave its annual coffee party to the senior class, on
Saturday, January 11. The girls, as usual appreciated the opportunity of
getting acquainted with the office and its facilities, and realizing its signifi-
cance to them when they have become alumnae.

AMERICAN ALUMNI COUNCIL

District 1 of the American Alumni Council will meet at Dartmouth
College, Hanover, N. H., April 24 and 25.

Class News

1884

Eliza Newton Frary sends the following
'welcome news of herself and family. "I was
very much interested in the reunion picture
•of the class of 1886, and especially that of
Hattie Raymond, my close friend while at
Abbot. News of myself includes my marriage
on September 20, 1893 to George Frary, a
graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
We have three living children and eleven
grandchildren, and three great grand-
children. Most of my married life has been
spent in Charlemont, where my husband
•owned and conducted a wood turning
business. My two sons are engaged in a wood
turning business in Maine, and my daughter
married a teacher and lives in Connecticut.
I am now 81 years old."

1886

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Frank W.
Darling (Mary Gorton), Hampton, Virginia.

Mrs. Darling attended the meeting of the
New York Club on December 7, when the
famous class letter collection maintained by
Mrs. Harriet Raymond Brosnan all the sixty
years was on exhibition, and a letter from
.her was read.

1887
Sixtieth Reunion

Reunion Chairman : Miss Harriet Thwing,
975 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio.

Miss Thwing sends the following news of
■classmates:

Last summer Angie Dunton Purrington and
•daughter Hilda had an interesting call on
Sophia Walker Piper and gave her '87's an-
nual class letters. I continue to hope that
Hilda can take Angie and Sophia to our
Sixtieth. Anna Bronson Root cannot be there
for last week she fell and fractured her left
hip. Jean Jillson and her sister are occupied
with their home in California, gardening,
church work and Red Cross work. Jeanie
Carter Prall is the busiest member of '87. She
helps her daughter Marion in her large
nursery school, home cares, and church
work. Eliza Atwell Browne fears it would be
impossible for her to attend reunion.

1892

Fifty-fifth Reunion

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Jane B. Car-
penter, 32 Shepard St., Apt. 22, Cambridge.

1893

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Harry R.
Miles (Anna Nettleton) , 4 Rock Ledge Drive,
Stamford, Conn.

1894

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Doremus
Scudder (Mabel Bosher), 133 West Ninth
St., Claremont, Cal.

Mrs. Scudder who has had "eight glorious
months visiting friends in Hawaii," is now
back home in Claremont.

1895

Grace Simonton Young has a new grand-
son, Timothy Castle, born in December to
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Young.

1896

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Henry V.
Conant (Ruth Loring) 914 High St., Ded-
ham.

Helen Marland Bradbury is recovering
from a broken hip, at Clearwater, Florida.

May Toung Duffy has a new grandson,
George Jr., son of her younger boy.

1897

Fiftieth Reunion

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Alexander
Bunce (Gertrude Ware), R.F.D. 1, Rock-
ville, Conn.

1898

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Robert W.
Dunbar (Selina Cook), 3 Elk St., Apt. 7,
Albany, N. Y.

1900

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Arthur P.
Spear (Grace Chapman), 156 Winchester
St., Brookline.

Eleanor Thomson Castle shares grand-
mother honors with Grace Simonton Young
in the birth of a son, Timothy Castle to her
daughter Lorna Castle Young.

1901

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Helen Hale,
86 Knox St., Lawrence.

1902
Forty-fifth Reunion

Class Fund Secretary and Reunion Chair-
man: Mrs. Hezekiah Poor (Mildred
Mooers), 37 Ames St., Lawrence.

1903

Mrs. Sarah Burnham French, mother of
Helen B. French died on November 13,
1946, in Nashua, N. H.

1904

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. William O.
Pettit (Elizabeth Winsor), 186 Livingston
Ave., Brunswick, N.J.

Mary Davis Lee and Marion Cooper met
unexpectedly at the Boone Tavern Hotel at
Berea College, on New Year's Day. From
there they drove on to Florida together.

1905

The Rev. Charles H. Cutler, father of
Frances Cutler Knickerbocker, died on
November 10, 1946. Dr. Cutler was a trustee
of Abbot from 1913 to 1940; and from 1926
to 1 93 1 he taught the senior classes in Chris-
tian Theism.

1907
Fortieth Reunion

All Abbot girls know that five goes into
forty eight times. So all you members of '07
plan now to renew your youth by attending
our eighth! reunion, May 30 to June 2.
Alice Webster Brush
1 108 Adams St.,
Dorchester Lower Mills, Mass.
Reunion Chairman

1909

Helen Mills Farnsworth's oldest daughter,
Helen Worthen, has a second son, born
November 22, 1946.

1910

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Myron *G.
Darby (Ethel Reigeluth), 110 Tanglewylde
Ave., Bronxville, N. Y.

Please send any change of address to the
Alumnae Office!

1911

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Douglas
Donald (Edith Johnson), 8 Carisbrooke St.,
Andover.

Marion Brown has been elected governor
of the fourth district of Quota International,
an organization of professional and business
women.

Loea P. Howard, father of Miriam Howard
Bushnell died December 25, 1946.

1912
Thirty-fifth Reunion

1913

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Margaret
Wilkins, 279 N. Euclid Ave., Pasadena, Cal.

1914

Class Fund Secretary Mrs. Lowell Sloan
(Elsie Gleason), 65 Mt. Vernon St., Boston.

1916

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. James E»
Downs (Laura Cheever), Bancroft Rd. r
Andover.

1917
Thirtieth Reunion

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Oliver D,
Wescott (Dorothy Small), 84 Main St., Nan-
tucket.

Greetings to you girls of 191 7. Believe it
or not we are nearing our 30th Reunion.
Plan now to be back at Abbot, May 30 to
June 2, especially May 3 1 , for Alumnae Day.

Miriam Bacon Chellis
15 Raymond Ave.,
Beverly, Mass.

Reunion Chairman

1918

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. George J.
Cutler (Velma Rowell), 45 Eliot St., Jamaica
Plain.

Katharine Righter Morris's daughter Mary-
Ann attends Randolph-Macon College.

Mary Davis Irwin writes of her family
move to Cornish Flat, N. H., where her son
George Jr., bought an automobile agency
in Claremont. Her daughter Melissa and
son George, are planning weddings in June.
Marjorie attends a Junior College in New
Haven, Conn, and John goes to Claremont
Junior High.

QUESTION AND ANSWER!!!

"I have been wondering why I was not receiving my copies of
The Abbot Bulletin, when suddenly the last issue, October, 1946,
arrived having been forwarded from several former addresses.
Only then did I understand the reason. I had failed to let the
Alumnae Office know of change of name and various addresses."

Graduate of 1943

1919

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Grace L.
Boynton (Grace Leyser),30 Engle St., Ten-
any, N. J.

Elizabeth Luce Moore is chairman of the
Round-the-World Y.W.C.A. Reconstruction
Campaign.

Margaret Taylor Stainton's husband, Rob-
ert Stainton, is teaching at Case School in
Cleveland where he is Professor of Mechan-
ical Engineering. Her son Bob attends The
Putney School in Vermont.

1920

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Beverly Hub-
bard (Muriel Moxley), 172 Putnam Ave.,
Hamden, Conn.

1921

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. David H.
Bigelow (Marion Kimball), 326 Highland
St., West Newton.

1922
Twenty-fifth Reunion

Well girls (or are we, still?) this is it. Yes
sir, twenty-five years have elapsed since our
then, sylph-like figures adorned the learned
halls of Abbot and it seems altogether fitting
and proper that those still able to perambu-
late should cast their husbands loose from
their apron strings for a couple of days and
join in celebrating this memorable occasion.

Be ye warned, therefore, to set aside the
three days from May 30 to June 2nd, with
special emphasis on May 31st, Alumnae
Day. Tell your husband you need the car
then and not to ask a lot of questions.

In the meantime be thinking of the news
you're going to give me when I write you all
individually later on. Full and complete
particulars of everything that has happened

to you since you left, whether it seems im-
portant or not, will be grist for the mill.

So — circle the dates on the calendar, warn
your kith and kin they'll have to shift for
themselves, that you'll come back (probably)
sadder, perhaps, but a little wiser and with
many happy memories of days well spent in
the fond embrace of your old Alma Mater.
See you then.

Janet Warren Winslow
57 Pinewood Road,
Needham, Mass.
Reunion Chairman

Olive Howard Vance writes of their move
to a newly purchased home at 52 W. Central
St., Natick, and all the problems of moving.
"The joy of our days is the beautiful grand-
son, William Bradford, born to Gale (my
class baby) and Jeanne on August 10. Car-
olyn our oldest daughter was graduated
from Sargent College last May, and is now
at the V. A. Hospital in Bedford. Peter and
Polly are both in senior high and busy all
the time. My husband, Bill, opened a shop
in the Charlesgate Hotel. He has a beautiful
showroom and carries a line of gifts. I have
made most of the slip covers and draperies
for Bill's business. With those orders, and
the normal demands of an eleven-room
house and a family of seven, you can see why
my social life is limited! I wonder if I am the
first to be a grandmother in the class of 1922.
I was first married and had the first child.

Elizabeth Hutchinson Graham was in these
parts in September, entering her eldest at
Endicott Junior College. During the Christ-
mas shopping I met Peg Potter Kensinger
looking as sweet and pretty as ever."

Marian Rugg Cay wood says, "There's
nothing exciting about what I'm doing but
I always look under our class notes for any
news of the other girls so I can say 'Hello'

anyway. My 'worthwhile' leisure goes
chiefly to 'drive' work. Symphony, Opera,
Red Gross, Community Chest, etc. Our one
child, Abby, now 14, is a freshman at Mary
Institute, old enough to wish she were at
Abbot."

Elizabeth Whittemore is Executive Direc-
tor for the Girl Scouts of Oahu and Kauai,
two of the islands of the Hawaiian group.
"It's been fascinating for I have lived thru
the ten o'clock blackout and frequent air
raid alarms, the tensions of getting ready for
the victory push, peace and terrific after
peace adjustment. I've come out with a
tremendous respect and liking for the peoples
of these islands. You should see some of my
training courses. In the same group we'll
have whites, Hawaiians, Chinese, Japanese
(whom I like by the way), Portuguese,
Filipinos, and half a dozen mixtures of
each."

1923

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Sterling Dow
(Elizabeth Flagg), 36 Holden St., Cam-
bridge.

Sybil Kidder was married last August to
Irvine H. Paris, Address: Bank of Hawaii,
Honolulu 2.

Engaged: Miriam Sweeney to Frank
McArdle.

1924

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. A. John
Holden (Polly Bullard), 39 Mt. Pleasant St.,
Middlebury, Vermont.

Barbara Loomer is president of the Mer-
rimack Valley Wheaton Club.

1925

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. George B.
Beveridge (Charlotte Hanna), Sanfordtown
Rd., Redding, Conn.

Time to enter that daughter in Abbot for
1947 and 1948. Write for a catalogue.

1927
Twentieth Reunion

Reunion Chairman: Sydna White, 391
Bleecker St., New York City, 14.

Katharine Keany is Information Assistant,
office of International Information and Cul-
tural Affairs of the American Embassy in
Buenos Aires.

Lucy Sanborn writes, "Since early in
November I have been working as supervisor
for Child and Family Service, a private
social work agency in Honolulu."

Sydna White is still in New York promot-
ing her filmstrip on world government,
called "How to Conquer War." There are
900 prints of it in circulation, and in the last
year it has been shown in several foreign
countries. It was shown at the first interna-
tional conference of world government or-
ganizations in Luxumbourg in October.

1928

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Emily Sloper,
36 Russell St., New Britain, Conn.

Helen Leavitt Fisher and her husband are
now living in Blooming Grove, New York.
They are serving a church there, while they
both take graduate work at Union Seminary
in New York. "We are finding the study of
Hebrew and Greek intensely interesting
with better years to come as we delve in the
fascinating subjects of Biblical study. Wilkin c
now four years old, is fine and very active.',

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Coggins
(Marion Quin) a daughter Ann Beecher,
October 16, 1945.

1929

In the January Atlantic appeared a charm-
ing letter written by Louise Hollis Black to
Mr. Weeks, the Editor.

Rosamond Wheeler says, "Not a single
note about 1929 in the last Bulletin! Re-
cently I flew down to New York for a reun-
ion of Smith College Juniors in France,
getting back just in time to lecture in Sever
Hall, Harvard, for the University Extension
Course on "Enrichment of Adult Life."
I also write for the jobs and futures depart-
ment in Mademoiselle magazine in addition
to my regular work in the society depart-
ment of the Boston Herald. Polly Francis
Loesch looked younger then ever recently,
in spite of her lively twins."

1930

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Jack R. War-
wick (Mary Jane Owsley), 26 Ledgewood
Rd., Bronxville, New York.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. W. Gardner
Barker 2nd. (Milda Allen), a son, Bruce
Allen, November 9, 1946.

Alma Hill writes, "My days are quite full
with women's club activities. I am chairman

of the Department of American Home and
Division of Family Finance for the New
Hampshire Federation of Women's Clubs."

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Hol-
land (Barbara Healey) a daughter Elizabeth
Anne, December 12, 1946.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. George R. Struck
(Christine Hollands), a second son, George
Christian, September 27, 1946.

Katharine Phelps Richardson lives now
in Arlington, Virginia. Col. Richardson
served five years in the war, and is now Ad-
ministrative Analyst in the office of the
Quartermaster General in Washington. She
has two children, Sally and Nancy.

1931

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Francis Hol-
land (Barbara Graham), 644 Orchard St.,
East Lansing, Mich.

Flora Collins has been living in Santa
Monica, Cal., since 1943. At present she is
secretary to Jose Iturbi.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Fernando Aldana
(Barbara Kidder), a daughter Patricia,
November 13, 1946, in Guatemala City.

1932
Fifteenth Reunion

Reunion Chairman: Miss Betty Boyce,
i'54 Main St., Andover.

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Dorothy
Richardson, Boston Road, Billerica.

Born: To Major and Mrs. John E. Love-
lock (Cynthia James), a daughter Mary
Rutherford, September 18, 1946. Cynthia
writes, "We have recently moved to this
address, and it would appear to be reason-
ably permanent, though we have hopes of
crossing the Atlantic from time to time. I
wish I could be at reunion this year." Ad-
dress: 34 Devonshire Place, London, W.i,
England.

Married: Virginia Lawton Cheney to
Lieut, (jg) LeRoy S. Wolfe Jr., November
30, 1946. Lieut. Wolfe is stationed at the
N.O.B. Dispensary, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Married: Julia Wilhelmi Dodane to Major
George Lindahl, U.S.A., September 26,
1946.

1933

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Robert D.
Johnson (Margaret Chase), 100 Stuyvesant
Place, St. George, Staten Island, N. Y.

Clara Shaw is working as secretary to the
Headmaster of the Pomfret School, in Pom-
fret, Conn.

1934

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Savage Jr.
(Mary Flaherty), a daughter, Ellen Draper,
December 26, 1946.

Born: To Dr. and Mrs. George S. Robin-
son (Dorothy Lambert) twin daughters,
Bradlee Ellen and Merrilee Ann, December
19, 1946.

1935

Married: Lenore Buckley to Major Vin-
cent A. Hurley, July 13, 1946. She lives at
1620 Enderly Place, Fort Worth, Texas,
where Major Hurley is an insurance under-
writer.

Helen Cary May's husband is case super-
visor of the Department of Welfare in Green-
wich, Conn. They live in Riverside, Conn.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. John H. McClen-
nan (Jane Dawes), a daughter Susan,
October 17, 1946.

Patricia Smith Magee writes that she has
been married six years, has one son Mark,
and lives in Marblehead.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon L. Land
(Ernestine Look) a second child, a son,
November 5, 1946.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Lin-
coln (Barbara Waite) a third son, Jeffrey
Charles, July 20, 1946. Anthony Seabury
was born January 15, 1944. The first son
died January 1, 1943.

1936

Married: Harriott Cole to Paul F. Fox
January 25. Her sister Ann Cole Gannett
was matron of honor, Eleanor Cole (aff. '42)
and Hope Humphreys were among the
maids of honor.

Notify the Alumnae Office at once of any
change of address.

1937
Tenth Reunion

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Arthur W.
Tucker (Martha E. Ransom), 632 Great
Plain Rd., Needham.

Dr. John J. McArdle Jr., husband of Nancy
Burns, has opened an office in Andover for
the practice of medicine and surgery.

1938

Elise Duncan writes that she and her
sister Virginia (aff. '41) are working at Lord
and Taylor in New York.

Engaged: Madeleine Proctor to the Rev.
Donald R. Woodward, rector of the Church
of the Incarnation, Lynn.

1939

Frederick A. Peterson Jr., husband of
Nancy Lee Burnett, has been appointed in-
structor in the department of English at
Phillips Academy.

Engaged: Frances Cross to Dr. Francis
Seymour Jones.

Married: Patricia Goss to James Scott
Rhodes, September 14, 1946. Address: 3
Giffard St., Tuckahoe, N. Y.

From Dorothy Heidrich we learn: "At
present I am an assistant teacher in a nur-
sery school of eighteen youngsters and am
enjoying this work immensely, but hope to
slip away for two weeks in February for a
trip to Wyoming to ski. I'm also working
with the Children's Theatre Series here
which is sponsored by our Junior League.
For this year I 'caught' the job of chairman
of the Ticket Committee."

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. William W. Town-
son (Eleanor Martin) a son, Douglas Castle
II, October 11, 1946.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm K.
Smith Jr. (Lloyd Pierce) a second daughter,
Diana Gates, October 20, 1946. "Cynthia is
three years old, very large and active and
full of chatter, and is enjoying nursery
school immensely." The Smiths have bought
a house in Darien, Conn.

Keep the Alumnae Office informed of
changes of address!

1940

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Edmund W.
Nutting (Mary Howard), 213 Common-
wealth Ave., Boston.

Frances Chandler Partridge writes: "We
are very well situated here in Germany. We
are living in an Army Community just out-
side the base and have a typical stucco Ger-
man house. Right now our life is a bit prim-
itive since we have no heat in the house
except for fires that we built in our two little

stoves. I cook on a wood stove and heat all
of our water in a boiler in the bathroom.
Naturally this is not what we are used to,
but we manage very well. We have a marvel-
ous German maid who is very agreeable.
Most of the Germans are nice, but you have
to watch them pretty closely. We are taking
German lessons. My husband is with the
Replacement Depot for all Army Air Force
men in the European Theater. New men
come in here every day to be assigned to a
permanent base in the theatre. He also does
some flying, so is kept pretty busy.

We are pretty free to go where we want
and when we want. Naturally there is not
much we can buy in the German stores as it
all is rationed. The Army offers you a won-
derful opportunity as far as travel goes. We
have just returned from Switzerland and
Italy. Every six months we can take a leave
and thus enable us to see quite a lot of
Europe.

I think there are a couple other Abbot
graduates who are over here."

Married: Mary Howard to Edmund
Washburn Nutting, November 26, 1946.

Married: Nadene Nichols to Robert
Douglas Lane, January 4.

Married: Anne Rivinius to Robert Pres-
cott Wild, November 2, 1946. Her sister,
Ellen Rivinius Hill '35, was one of her at-
tendants.

Married: Priscilla Russ to John P. Shan-
non Jr., August 18, 1946.

Frank M. Travis, father of Elizabeth
Travis Sollenberger 1940 and Margaret
Travis 1944, died on November 25, 1946 in
Torrington, Conn.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Donald Bramley
(Joan Wyatt) a son, Peter Wyatt, November
7> 1946. .

1941

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Frederick S.
Kremer (Sue Long), 130 East 74th St.,
New York City.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. William W. Bod-
dington (Jo Hartwell) a son, John Hartwell,
September 24, 1946.

Jane Philbin graduated from Radcliffe
last September, and is now enjoying her
work as an assistant secretary in the office of
Nelson Rockefeller in New York.

Engaged: Eleanor Rafton to Harold N.
Gordon.

1942
Fifth Reunion

Married: Helen Craig to Jerome Thomas
Jarrold, November 30, 1946. Her sister
Janet '45, was her maid of honor.

Married: Margaret Janssen to Joseph
Rockhill Gray, December 27, 1946.

Engaged : Janice Lenane to Walter Irving
Scott Jr.

Engaged: Louise Leslie to Alfred J. Oxen-
ham.

Married: Barbara Sanders to Wilton Wells
Dadmun, January 1 7.

Engaged: Margaret Stuart to James Mar-
tin Beale.

Rose Wind is a case worker in the Brock-
ton Family Service Organization.

Married: Ann Zeitung to Nathan Strong
Hale, December 21, 1946.

1943

Helen Barss received her diploma from
the Boston School of Occupational Therapy
on December 14, 1946.

Engaged: Mary Alice Beckman to Peter
Huidekoper.

Engaged: Nancy Corwin to William A.
Wintter.

Married: Elizabeth Garratt to Frank Ed-
ward Taylor, May 25, 1946.

Engaged: Gertrude Hamper to Edward
Hearsey Barry Jr.

Engaged: Marjorie Ann Lehmann to Ben
Moats.

Married: Anne Locke to Howard Haman
Jr., September 20, 1946. Mr. Haman is a job

analyst in the Kingsbury Ordnance Plant
in LaPorte, Ind.

Lt. Col. and Mrs. Louis B. Hess (Betty-
Lou Monett) are spending the winter in
Miami Beach, Florida. They made the trip
in their cruiser the "Amity," via the Intra-
coastal Waterway from New Jersey to
Florida.

Married: Winifred Tucker to Marvin
Hibshman, January 16, 1946.

1944

Married: Aagot Hinrichsen to John E.
Cain Jr., August 17, 1946.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. James A. Wilson
(Patricia Chandler) a son, Jeffrey James,
September 17, 1946, in London, England.

Engaged: Charlotte Trow to Earl Albert
Young.

Alva Houston Davis with her small son,
has recently joined her husband in China.

1945

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Shirley Som-
mer, 1367 Brown Hills Rd., Rockford, 111.

Please send wedding announcements to
the Alumnae Office. Keep the office in-
formed on changes of address.

1946
First Reunion

Reunion Chairman: Sally V. Allen, Briar-
cliff Junior College, Briarcliff Manor, N. Y.

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Mary Burton,
33 Afterglow Way, Montclair, N. J.

RITE news about yourself and others for the May Bulletin. Tear out
and mail before April i, to the Alumnae Office, Abbot Academy,
Andover, Mass.

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Abbot Academy Alumnae Association

Associate Member of the American Alumni Council

President

Mrs. Frank C. d'Elseaux

(Virginia Gay)
12 Sheffield Rd.
Winchester, Mass.

Vice-presidents

Mrs. Douglas Donald
(Edith Johnson)
8 Carisbrooke Street
Andover, Mass.

Mrs. Russell T. Loesgh
(Polly Francis)
3 Sears Avenue
Melrose Highlands, Mass.

Mrs. Arthur W. Tucker
(Martha Elizabeth Ransom)
632 Great Plain Road
Needham, Mass.

OFFICERS, 1 946- 1 948

Clerk

Mrs. George K. Sanborn
(Frances Flagg)
Andover, Mass.

Treasurer

Mrs. Dino Olivetti
(Rosamond Castle)
Andover, Mass.

Social Secretary

Mrs. Reeve Chipman
(Constance Parker)
5 Morton Street
Andover, Mass.

Executive Secretary
Miss Marion McPherson
3^2 Summer Street
Andover, Mass.

ALUMNAE TRUSTEES

I943-I94 8
Miss Margaret Van Voorhis
304 Lexington Avenue
New York City, N. Y.

I945-IQ5 1
Mrs. Lenert W. Henry
(Helen Allen)
246 Glen Road
Weston 93, Mass.

ABBOT CLUB PRESIDENTS

BOSTON

Mrs. Arthur W. Tucker
(Martha E. Ransom)
632 Great Plain Rd.
Needham, Mass.

CHICAGO

Mrs. Roger Robbins
(Carolyn Cross)
800 McKinley St.
Geneva, Illinois

CONNECTICUT

Mrs. Russell Haigis
(Martha Tuttle)
30 Liberty St.
New Britain

DETROIT

Mrs. Thomas Nalle
(Harriet Balfe)
121 1 Willow Lane
Birmingham, Mich.

MAINE, EASTERN

Mrs. John H. McLoon
(Frances McDougall)
1 1 1 Beech St.
Rockland, Maine

MAINE, WESTERN
Mrs. Frank N. Wells
(Louise Houghton)
Eastland Hotel
Portland, Maine

NEW YORK
Mrs. Grace L. Boynton
(Grace Leyser)
30 Engle St.
Tenafly, N.J.

OHIO CENTRAL

Mrs. Coburn Wheeler

(Bettina Rollins)

2644 Berwyn Rd.

Columbus, Ohio

OHIO, CLEVELAND
Mrs. George Worthing ton
(Madeleine Fiske)
Chesterland, Ohio

OLD COLONY
Mrs. A. Scudder Moore
(Ruth Murray)
96 South Elm Street
West Bridge water, Mass.

PITTSBURGH
Mrs. George H. Jackson
(Gertrude Miller)
515 North McKean Street
Butler, Pa.

ABBOT ACADEMY BULLETIN

Series 14

MAY 1947

Issue 3

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Table of Contents

Page
Cover Photograph: . . Phyllis Rairdon, Joyce Merrick 1946

Frontispiece: Abbot Dolls at Hindman School Elizabeth Watts

Hindman Settlement School

Photograph: Students at Hindman School

Abbot Christian Association

World Student Service Fund

Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe

Christine von Goeben ig^y

Meals for Millions

Cum Laude Society

Events Spring Term

Photograph: Abbot Academy, 1946

Abbot Alumnae Association

A Memory

Abbot Clubs

In Memoriam

Class News

Elizabeth Watts igoy

Virginia Eason ig^y
Barbara Turner ig^y

Carolyn McLean ig^y

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THE EDITORIAL BOARD

Jane B. Carpenter, 1892, honorary

Constance Parker Chipman, 1906, Editor-in-Chief

Marion McPherson, 1918

Virginia Gay d'Elseaux, 1929, ex officio

Published four times yearly, October, February, May, and September, by Abbot Acad-
emy, Andover, Massachusetts.

Entered as second class matter December 12, 1933, at the post office at Andover, Massa-
chusetts, under the act of August 24, 1912.

Abbot Dolls
on Christmas
Morning

Elizabeth Watts,
Abbot '07, standing

in the doorway

of Uncle Solomon's

house

Hindman Settlement School — Where the

Dolls Go

Elizabeth Watts, Abbot 1907, Executive Director

Abbot Academy has known about Hindman longer than I have! A thing
I never lived down with Miss Pettit and Miss Stone, the founders of Hindman
Settlement School, was that they came to Abbot one Saturday afternoon,
while I was a student there, to tell about Hindman and I have absolutely no
recollection of it! It would have been wonderful to be able to tell them that I
got inspiration for my life work from their talks. Instead, when they spoke
of having been there, I looked blank. I must have been absent that day. I
know I couldn't have heard them and forgotten. But, in my case, opportunity
knocked twice. The next time, I heard, and in 1909 I came to Hindman to
stay for one year. I have been here ever since.

The journey to Hindman in 1909 was very different from the comfortable
drive over a good road you would have if you came here now. I was met at
the railroad by sixteen-year-old Shadrach who had never seen a train before.
He had brought a horse for me to ride the forty miles to the school and I had
never been on a horse's back in my life. Each of us thought the other very
queer! How I wish I had a picture of us as we started out! I was riding side-
saddle, wearing a dark blue foulard silk dress, and jauntily carrying my
umbrella, while Shadrach balanced my suit-case in front of his saddle on the
other horse. It seemed to me as I left the single street of the little railroad
town that I was going into a veritable maze of hills, and I didn't see how any
one could find his way, certainly not a boy who had already told me he had
never been there before. My fears were increased when — after jogging along
a while — he said we had made a wrong turn and would have to go back.
After we had retraced our steps and made another turn, we came to a wide
stream, and there was no bridge. I was sure we were lost, but not so! Fording
a creek was part of the journey, and we plunged in until the water came to
our stirrups. Fortunately it came no farther, and we were on our way. As we
couldn't make Hindman that day, we "took the night" on Goose Creek. The
next morning riding was agony for my sore muscles, especially when the
horses speeded up as we drew nearer the Settlement where they knew, and I
soon found, a warm welcome awaited us.

I have loved Hindman and its people ever since that day. Gathered
around the open fire in the beautiful Log Settlement House, I heard from
Miss Pettit and Miss Stone the story that I had missed that day at Abbot.
They told of Uncle Solomon Everage and his plea: "When I was just a chunk
of a boy hoeing corn on the steep hillsides, I used to look up Troublesome
Creek and down Troublesome Creek and wonder if anybody would ever
come in to larn us anything. I cain't read and write; some of my children

cain't read and write; but I've got grandchildren and great-grandchildren
just as bright as any in the world and I want them to have a chance." They
told of their response to that plea, of their starting in tents, cloth houses, the
people called them — and of the growth of the school since then.

I had come to help out in any way I could; but after a month or so the
primary teacher left because of illness at home and I took over her work — the
first three grades with over a hundred enrolled and an average attendance of
ninety! But I loved it! After a big fire in January when we lost practically
everything we had, the people expressed their need of the school so whole-
heartedly that I changed my feeling that I had come for one year to one of
wanting to "take up" here indefinitely. Fire, flood, epidemics, depression and
two wars haven't changed me, for I have seen the school and community
grow, and watched our graduates go forth to take their places in the world in
a manner that would be gratifying to any school anywhere.

From the beginning the Settlement has supplemented the work of the
local public school. At first the supplement part was many times greater than
what the County was able to supply. The Settlement chose all the teachers
and paid most of them. It provided the buildings and equipment. Gradually
through the years, as many of our young people graduated from Hindman
and from college, they became qualified to take more of the positions. A
quotation from a paper written by the wife of the County-appointed principal
of the Hindman Schools tells the story of the change the years have brought.

She says: "The theory of the Settlement seems to be that the community
should take all the responsibility that it can as soon as it is capable of doing
so. Dr. Rubado who is assistant supervisor of the Louisville City Schools once
made the statement in a class which I had under him, that the Hindman
Settlement School was one of the few organizations in the country to have
successfully coordinated with a county school system. They have done a
remarkable job of nurturing the school system until the day when it could
stand on its own feet. With the set-up as it now stands, the school could run
with its own machinery, but without the aid of the Settlement it would be
just another ordinary county school system. With the aid of the Settlement it
is much more than that. The Settlement provides — a wonderful up-to-date
library with a most capable librarian; it provides for home economics, weav-
ing, manual training, art, music, a Fireside Industries Department and super-
vised recreation.

In addition to provisions for these finer arts, the Settlement provides a
home for many boys and girls from throughout Knott and adjoining counties.
For a small fee the student receives much more than he himself realizes. To
many of them it means the only opportunity for a High School education.
The school busses which run only along the main highways can serve only
those students within walking distance of the highway. In the dormitories, the
children find not only a comfortable room, but also a housemother with a
personal and genuine interest in each of her charges. Here they learn to live
and work together harmoniously and here they learn those little niceties and
courtesies that a public school alone could never teach."

Hindman
Girls Canning

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Elizabeth Watts with a group of Settlement boys

Our Recreation Director reaches more children than anyone else on our
staff. She visits the country schools, driving the station wagon up creeks and
hollows and playing with all the children she finds. They look forward to the
coming of the "Play Lady" and because they expect to find her in it, whether
she is or not, the station wagon is hailed with joy by any children it passes.
Here in Hindman she has an extensive Folk Dance program and is in charge
of dramatics, presenting one or two good plays each year. At Christmas there
is always a Nativity Play. With the music department helping her, they make
it an altogether lovely thing.

Speaking of Christmas brings me back to Abbot, for Abbot's share in
Hindman's Christmas has been great as long as I have been here. I'll never
forget the thrill I had the first time I helped open boxes that Abbot girls had
sent. There were so many lovely things for boys and girls of all ages. And then
there were the dolls! Each year they have come, and each year we marvel as
we unpack them and look at their dainty, or jaunty, costumes, and think of
the endless time that Abbot girls have put into them. Then we think of the
endless pleasure they will give to the girls who get them, and we know that if
the girls who dressed the dolls could have gone all the way with them to
their new homes, they would have felt that the time they put into them was
worth while.

Some of them go to big girls and some to little ones, for mountain girls
of all ages love dolls. We have to plan carefully, so many for the girls who will
be in the Settlement to hang their stockings Christmas Eve, so many for the
Baby Party at Kindergarten, so many for the Possum Trot Sunday School,
and we mustn't forget some for the Recreation Director to take out to the
schools. Then of course there are the families — families who will have little
or no Christmas unless we play Santa Claus. When there are four, five, six,
or seven girls in one family — and there often are — it has to be decided whether
more than one doll can go to a family and, if so, what ages will be the lucky
ones. Care had to be taken this year for the two families that had had their
homes, and as one man put it "all I owned but my wife and children," burned
up. A pretty one went to the little girl who leads her blind father everywhere
he goes. Her mother is blind, too.

Abbot girls will never know the joy their dolls have given. A Settlement
girl who didn't stay for the stocking hanging on Christmas Eve said, when she
came back and saw the doll one of the girls was playing with, "I reckon I'll
stay here for Christmas next year instead of going home. It seems as if I
couldn't stand it not to have one of those dolls."

All through the years the dolls have strengthened my link with Abbot.
When the Christmas gifts come, and in the spring when the check to help pay
a scholarship arrives, I am made happy in knowing that the school that did
so much for me is interested in helping the girls and boys in the Hindman
Settlement School. Even though I didn't first hear about Hindman at Abbot,
as I should have, the two schools will always be closely associated in my heart.

Abbot Christian Association

Virginia Eason, 1947, President

From year to year the A.C.A. work changes a little, but, on the whole, it
stays pretty well the same. We still appoint "old girls" to "new girls" and ask
them to look after the "new girls" the first days of school and escort them to
the "Old Girl-New Girl" picnic and party. The Athletic Association has
charge of the picnic, but the Christian Association gives the party. This year
we had a "Hairdressing and Hat Contest" in Davis Hall with charades and
refreshments following, and we ended the evening by listening to Miss Friskin
play.

We turned the making of the dolls, usually done by the seniors, to send to
the Hindman School in the mountains of Kentucky, for Christmas, over to
the underclassmen this year. Ninety dolls were dressed, and we exhibited
them in the lobby, outside the library, so that the three best dressed dolls
could be chosen by vote.

Early in December the dolls and the presents, both the useful gifts and
toys which the girls bought and wrapped for Hindman, were sent. As usual,
we received a lovely letter of thanks from Miss Elizabeth Watts, treasurer and
executive director of Hindman.

The Saturday before Christmas vacation we gave the annual Christmas
Party for the underprivileged children of Andover. At least fifty children
arrived for the games, the Christmas play given by the senior-mids, the re-
freshments, and, best of all, the presents which were delivered by Santa him-
self from the big tree on the stage. We sent each beaming child home with his
present, a shiny penny, and an orange for remembrance.

The next day, Sunday, the A.C.A. officers delivered a basket of fruit and
some Christmas dollars to the old folks at the Andover Infirmary. There were
only five men there this year, but they appreciated our gifts a great deal.

We also gave the Christmas Vesper Service early in December. The
candlelight service was conducted by two of the officers of the Christian
Association. Carols, and the Christmas story which was read gave us the first
feeling of the Christmas spirit.

After Christmas we raised $478.09 for the Red Cross by a one hundred
per cent contribution from both the faculty and the employees, and almost
one hundred per cent from the girls.

About this time the "Meals for Millions" and C.A.R.E. packages, about
which you will read later, were started.

Usually the donations to various organizations, except for the Commu-
nity Chest, are not sent out until after we have received our share of money
from the Abbot Birthday Bazaar. This year we had so many appeals and the
treasury was so well filled that we sent them out before spring vacation. The
contributions were as follows: Hindman Settlement School $100.00; National
Conference of Christians and Jews $25.00; Yenching University $25.00;
Atlanta University $25.00; Athens College $25.00; Save the Children Fed-

eration $25.00; Boston City Mission $15.00; Golden Rule Foundation
$15.00; Pine Mountain Settlement School $10.00.

Just before spring vacation a clothing drive was held and two big boxes
of clothing and shoes were collected to be sent to Europe.

As you know, Abbot sponsors the College Classique des Jeunes Filles,
Cherbourg, France. Last year Mademoiselle Arosa, of the faculty, took
supplies and food over to them on her trip to France. This seems the best plan
since their needs can be bought in this country, but not in France. Many
Abbot girls are corresponding with students at the college and many are
sending packages of food to individual girls. There has been some talk of
exchanging students, and, perhaps, one of these years that will come to pass.

A.C.A. has given three vesper services this year: one in the fall on the
World Student Service Fund; the Christmas service, and a hymn sing in
February. Another service is scheduled for the end of the year. Last term
A.C.A. held three morning chapels and we are going to give several more
between now and the end of school. Both chapels and vespers given by A.C.A.
are well-liked by all.

There are very few things left this year for A.C.A. to do, but we have had
a full and happy year. Innovations have been made, old practices discarded,
but we feel that a lot of good has been accomplished, and we intend to con-
tinue it during the summer by collecting enough money for C.A.R.E. pack-
ages, to send several during the summer vacation.

World Student Service Fund

Barbara Turner, 1947, Secretary A.C.A.

The World Student Service Fund is an international organization of
students whose purpose is to promote international bonds of friendship and
to aid one another in times of hardship. Today, the students on this continent
are unique in that we are still in a position to help those who have been
crippled as a result of the war. We consider it not only our duty but a priv-
ilege and honor to help those in other lands who so heroically fought for the
principles for which we also stand.

Last year Abbot contributed almost $2,000 to this worthy organization.
This was the largest sum donated by any secondary school in the country.
The money was raised in a variety of ways; the principal source is a collection
which is taken up three times a year and it amounts to approximately three-
fifths of our total contribution. The girls are urged to make these donations a
personal gift from their own allowances. The faculty also contributes sub-
stantially.

Since the shortage in domestic help started which every establishment
faces, Abbot girls have done most of the dining-room work, such as setting
the tables. Each girl is assigned a new duty each week. The most dreaded of

all these duties is "dawn patrol", or setting tables for breakfast, because ii
requires an extra early start. Several girls volunteer to do this job and othei
in return for a small fee which goes to the W.S.S.F. Others do sewing, such
attaching name tapes and cleaning silver jewelry and ironing. The money
which they earn in this way is also given to the fund. (Money thus earned has
amounted to almost $200.) In addition to this, Abbot and Phillips presented
last year an operetta, Iolanthe. Abbot's share in the profits went to the fund.

Each year, early in May, Abbot has an annual birthday bazaar. This is
one of the major events on the school calendar. It is an outdoor affair which
is very gay and attractive with decorated booths around the Abbot Circle,
all types of games, flowers, balloons and there is a tea room. There have been
booths for each of several allied nations on which are sold war relief articles.
There are raffles and a wishing well and other attractions that make the Ab-
bot Circle resemble, in a large sense, a country fair. It is estimated that about
six hundred people come. In all about $2,000 was taken in last year, and the
profits which remained after all the expenses had been paid and money given
to the relief societies for whom we had sold articles, amounted to five hundred
dollars which were added to our donation to the World Student Service
Fund. Another method used to raise the funds, one which we especially like
because of its significance of denying ourselves something for the good of
others, is a golden rule meal. This is a wholesome but economical meal of
beans or some other inexpensive dish. The difference in cost between this
meal and the kind of dinner we usually have is about $30. Several of these
meals enable a fairly large sum to be added to our contribution.

Abbot was proud to hold first place last year among the secondary schools
in aiding this organization in its important work, and it hopes to be able to
make as substantial a contribution again this year.

Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe

Christine von Goeben, 1947, Vice-President A.C. A.

This year the school is helping to feed the starving in Europe in many
ways. One of these ways is in sending C.A.R.E. food packages. These are put
out by Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe, Inc. Each package
costs ten dollars and weighs thirty pounds. The advantage of sending relief
in this manner is that the food is already in Europe. Delivery is made right
from the stockpiles, but, if the package cannot be delivered, the money is
returned to the sender.

To collect the money for these packages we have placed two boxes
around the school in which people drop pennies, quarters and sometimes
dollars. The corridors and day scholars are also collecting among themselves.
So far, two packages have been sent, and we have nearly collected enough
for another.

Meals for Millions

Carolyn McLean, 1947, Treasurer A. C. A.

A means of helping Europe new to Abbot came this year: the Meals for
Millions Foundation. The purpose of this fund is principally to supply Euro-
pean children through large shipments of concentrated food, designed to
meet the basic needs of its recipients. Donations from Abbot for this cause
are not used to support the organization itself, but go directly to purchasing
the food, each three cents given buying one meal for a child in an Austrian
school.

Instead of collecting specified amounts through corridor proctors or the
Christian Association representatives, four jars have been put in places
which we pass every day: one of the Draper stair landings, Homestead,
Sherman and Abbey. So far Abbot has sent a little over twenty-six dollars
to the Foundation. The positions of these jars are constant reminders of their
purpose, and the remembrance that every few cents dropped into them pro-
vide a complete meal has encouraged voluntary and more frequent indi-
vidual giving at Abbot.

Cum Laude

Frances Flint 1942, cum laude, now in Radcliffe, spoke in Abbot Chapel,
April 21, on "The Reward of Scholarship." Following her talk the names of
the fourteen students receiving the award this year, were announced.

Emily Gierasch
Barbara Flues
Jane Brown
Corallie Hanly
Sally Humason
Margaret Kimball
Mildred Kreis

Elizabeth Ann Mitchell
Jean Ritchey
Susanne Robbins
Carolyn Sackett
Geraldine Treadway
Christine von Goeben
Marion White

Spring Term, 1947

Friday, April ri, Meeting of the Board of Trustees at the School

Saturday, April 12, College Board Examinations for Seniors. Concert by Miss

Kate Friskin and Dorothy Minty, Violinist
Sunday, April 12, Vespers, The Reverend Gardiner M. Day, D.D., Christ

Church, Cambridge
Saturday, April ig, Abbot Fidelio-Phillips Exeter Glee Club Concert at Exeter
Sunday, April 20, Vespers, The Reverend Allan K. Chalmers, D.D., Broadway

Tabernacle Church, New York
Saturday, April 26, Tea Dance for Preps and Juniors
Sunday, April 2J, Vespers, Abbot Christian Association
Saturday, May 3, Abbot Birthday Bazaar
Sunday, May 4, Vespers, Miss Friskin and the Choir
Saturday, May 10, Third Open Forum
Sunday, May 11, Organ Recital by Mr. Walter Howe
Saturday, May iy, Cum Laude Lecture, Mrs. Wilma A. Kerby-Miller, Dean

of Instruction, Radcliffe College
Sunday, May 18, Vespers, The Reverend Sidney Lovett, D.D., Chaplain Yale

University
Saturday, May 24, Field Day. Speech Recital
Sunday, May 25, Vespers, The Reverend A. Grant Noble, Chaplain, Williams

College.

Commencement Program

SCHOOL RALLY

Friday, May 30, 7.30 p.m.

ALUMNAE DAY

Saturday, May 31

Alumnae Luncheon, 1. 00 p.m.
Annual Meeting of the Alumnae
Association, Abbot Hall, 2.45 p.m.
Dinner with the school, Bailey Hall,
6.30 p.m.

DRAPER DRAMATICS

The Tempest, Davis Hall, 8.00 p.m.

BACCALAUREATE

Sunday, June 1, 10.45 a - m -j South
Church. Sermon by The Rev. Don-
ald B. Aldrich, D.D., Dean-Elect of
the Chapel, Princeton University.

TREE AND IVY PLANTING, 5.30
p.m.

COMMENCEMENT CONCERT

7.30 p.m.

GRADUATION EXERCISES

Monday, June 2, 10.00 a.m., South
Church. Address by Dr. Lewis
Perry, Headmaster Emeritus, Phillips
Exeter Academy.

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Abbot Alumnae Association

Reunions are friendly events, important every year, regardless of a five-
year interval. Alumnae are most cordially invited to return to Abbot for
Commencement, May 30 to June 2, and especially on May 31, Alumnae
Day. Come, not only to renew your youth, but to receive the greater satis-
faction of experiencing a mature appreciation of Abbot, and your Abbot
friends.

The Alumnae Luncheon will be a buffet lunch served in Bailey Hall, the
beautiful school dining room. The annual meeting of the Alumnae Associa-
tion will take place in Abbot Hall, and the Draper Dramatics, produced so
successfully by Mrs. Bertha Morgan Gray for thirty years, will provide a
delightful finish to the day.

Please return your applications for rooms and meals, at once, to the
Alumnae Office.

Chairman of committee on luncheon arrangements, Mrs. Mildred Frost
Eaton.

A Memory

Although I old and wrinkled be,
Age cannot dim my memory.
I well recall it, to this day:
The rug was wine; the walls were gray;
The little benches stood in line
Like Christian soldiers marking time.
And portraits hung in gilded frames
Upon which could be read the names
Of those who helped to pave the w r ay
To make my school what 'tis today.
Serene and hallowed was this room,
Refreshment in the darkest gloom.
Of me it's always been a part.
It owns a corner of my heart.

Alden Obering 1947

Class Reunion Chairmen

1887 Harriet H. Thwing, 975 East Boulevard, Cleveland 8, Ohio

1902 Mildred Mooers Poore (Mrs. Hezekiah), 37 Ames St., Lawrence, Mass.

1907 Alice Webster Brush (Mrs. R. Warner), 1 108 Adams St., Dorchester 24,
Mass.

1 91 2 Barbara Moore Pease (Mrs. Maurice H.), Lincoln Lane, New Britain,
Conn.

191 7 Miriam Bacon Chellis (Mrs. Myron S.), 15 Raymond Ave., Beverly,
Mass.

1922 Janet Warren Winslow (Mrs. Gordon B.), 57 Pinewood Rd., Need-
ham, Mass.

1927 Sydna White, 391 Bleecker St., New York 14, New York

1932 Elizabeth Boyce, 154 Main St., Andover, Mass.

1937 Joan Todd Wilkinson (Mrs. Warren S.), Tinton Ave., Eatontown, N.J.

1942 Jeanne Bowersox, 287 Willow St., New Haven, Conn.

1946 Sally V. Allen, Briarcliff Junior College, Briarcliff Manor, N. Y.

Abbot Circle Award

The Abbot Circle, the Senior class yearbook, won in competitive criticism,
the highest award given by the National Scholastic Press Association, that of
All American Superior rating. This is the first time the book has received the
top national rating, but on two other occasions, in 1939 and 1940, it received
First Class rating.

Ready! Abbot Playing Cards!

Exceptionally attractive playing cards with Abbot view, blue and yellow
backs. Perfect for gifts at any season. Priced at standard retail price. Order
one pack, or a set, through the Alumnae Office.

Centennial Plates!

Not many left, so they are in the antique class. Order now if you wish to
own one.

Books from Miss Emily Means' 1 Library

Last August Mr. Flagg, with Theodore and Bill to assist him, drove to
Miss Means' Island at Christmas Cove, Maine. They brought back around
500 books, from her personal library, a collection of French, German, Spanish
and Italian books, as well as many on art subjects (of which the Abbot library
has duplicates). These books have been carefully examined and appraised,
and the school has found it can place 266 on the library shelves. The rest are
worthless for present-day use.

Abbot Clubs

BOSTON (1892): President, Mrs. Martha Ransom Tucker '37; Vice-
Presidents, Mrs. Mary Piper Sears '28, Helen S. Barss '43; Recording Secretary,
Mrs. Dorothy Garry Warlick '40; Corresponding Secretary, Frances Flint '42;
Treasurer, Mrs. Margaret Nay Gramkow '27; Auditor, Helen Stott '41; Pro-
gram Chairman, Mrs. Gertrude Wind Schefft '40. Directors 1947-1949, Kather-
ine Harris '39, Mrs. Doris Sawyer Hoar '40, Joan Webster '40.

The annual meeting was held on April 12, at the College Club, Boston.
After dessert-coffee refreshments and the social period, the election of new
officers took place. The club voted a gift of $50. to the Abbot Scholarship
Fund. A special tribute was paid to the memory of Enid Baush Patterson,
Abbot 191 3, who died on February 25. From 1932- 1934 she was president
of the Boston Club, and always kept a devoted interest in its welfare. Two
poems written in appreciation of her life and friendship by Abbot friends,
were read (see page 26).

Mrs. Josephine Osgood gave a reading of a hilarious English Comedy.

CHICAGO (1921): President, Mrs. Carolyn Cross Robbins '40; Secretary-
Treasurer, Judith Hawkes '43. The club met for luncheon with Mrs. Chipman
on March 20, at the Hotel Pearson. Nine alumnae from Chicago and suburbs
were greatly interested to hear direct news from Andover, and decided to try
to meet- once a year.

Those present were: Margaret Hall Walker '08, Dorothy Gilbert Bellows
'15, Mary Simpson Lind '25, Edith Bullen Creden '26, Donna Brace Kroeck
'30, Alice Eckman Mason '30, Barbara Bellows '39, Carolyn Cross Robbins
'40, Judith Hawkes '43.

CONNECTICUT (1923): President, Mrs. Martha Tuttle Haigis '27;
Secretary-Treasurer, Mrs. Virginia Jones Garvan Jr. '38.

The Connecticut Club held a delightful luncheon meeting at the Shuttle
Meadow Club, New Britain, on April 18. Thirty-nine alumnae were present
to hear the latest news from Abbot from Mrs. Chipman, and new officers
were elected. Appreciation was expressed to Mrs. Barbara Moore Pease who
acted as hostess, and who had made the arrangements.

Those present were: Mabel Stone Griffin '94, Ethel Brooks Scott '01,
Julia Rockwell Bancroft '01, Katherine King '02, Rena Porter Hastings '06,
Gladys Dudley Stephan '07, Esther Parker Lovett '08, Marian Towle Sturgis
'08, Katherine Raymond Andrews '08, Ruth Newcomb '10, Emily Silsby
Morgan ' 1 o, Katherine Ordway Parker '11, Jessie Wightman Jones '11, Ruth
Draper Hyde '12, Barbara Moore Pease '12, Dorothy Simpson Faith '12,
Norma Allen Haine '15, Cornelia Newcomb Lattin '17, Ruth Allen Healy
'18, Judy Sherman Tibbetts '18, Harriette Harrison '19, Muriel Moxley
Hubbard '20, Louise Robinson '20, Katherine Damon Kletzien '22, Eleanor

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Warren '23, Eleanor Bodwell Pepion '25, Carlotta Sloper '26, Emily House
'27, Martha Tuttle Haigis '27, Emily Sloper '28, Dorothy Newcomb Rogers
'29, Barbara Lord Mathias '31, Kathryn Ingram Rowe '31, Shirley Smith
King '35, Barbara Waite Lincoln '36, Virginia Jones Garvan '38.

DETROIT (1922): President, Mrs. Harriet Balfe Nalle '17.

MAINE, EASTERN (1926): President, Mrs. Frances McDougall Mc-
Loon '26; Vice-President, Mrs. Louise Douglas Hill '26; Secretary-Treasurer,
Mrs. Annetta Richards Bryant '23. The annual meeting will be held this
summer.

MAINE, WESTERN (1898): President, Mrs. Louise Houghton Wells
'06; Secretary, Mrs. Gertrude Shackleton Hacker '15; Treasurer, Gladys Merrill

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NEW YORK (1898): President, Mrs. Grace Leyser Boynton '19; Vice-
Presidents, Mrs. Mary Jane Owsley Warwick '30, Mrs. Ruth Gann Baker '31;
Recording Secretary, Mrs. Mary Mallory Pattison '22; Corresponding Secretary,
Mrs. Susanne Long Kremer '41 ; Treasurer, Mrs. Alice Van Schmus Smith '22.
Directors, Mrs. Helen Bradley Hodgkinson '19, Gertrude Holbrook '25, Ann
Oakman '39.

The annual spring luncheon was held on April 19, at the Park Lane
Hotel, New York. Miss Alice Sweeney, Acting Principal of Abbot, was the
guest of honor. Sydna White '27, presented her filmstrip "How to Conquer
War," which has been shown all over this country and in many foreign
countries.

The retiring board of the club has held frequent meetings, and early this
spring gave a delightful tea at the Junior League for alumnae in the city.

Great appreciation was expressed to Gertrude Holbrook, retiring presi-
dent, for her untiring efforts to promote successful club meetings, and for the
many personal notes she has written, and telephone calls made, to bring
alumnae out to meetings. The Board appointed class representatives to take
the responsibility of inviting classmates in the New York area to attend meet-
ings and to sit at special class tables.

The successful result was evident in the attendance of fifty-three alumnae,
many of whom were present for the first time at an Abbot gathering.

Before the luncheon "Fair Alma Mater" was sung, and grace said by
Mary Carter Righter '89. The beautiful centerpiece was composed of spring
flowers brought by Nini Owsley Warwick from her garden, and place cards
were designed by Gertrude Holbrook, whose clever, original cards have
decorated the tables at many luncheons.

It was voted to have a tea and cocktail party on Friday, December 5,
instead of the usual luncheon, and to include husbands in the invitations.
The annual spring luncheon will be held in April, 1948.

Those present were: Mary Carter Righter '89, Anna Johnston '90, Helen
Stiles Hutchinson '93, Carolyn MacConnell Chapin '94, Catherine Sandford
'99, Mabel Tubman Taylor '00, Constance Parker Chipman '06, Alice
Sweeney '14, Elizabeth Brigham Roth '15, Helen Wygant Smith '19, Grace
Leyser Boynton '19, Marea Blackford Fowler '19, Eunice Meigs Pease '21,
Jane Baldwin '22, Elizabeth Hutchsinson Graham '22, Mary Mallory Patti-
son '22, Alice Van Schmus Smith '22, Helga Lundin Buttrick '23, Mary
Elizabeth Rudd '23, Maude King Bonner '24, Margaret McKee De Yoe '24,
Ethel Thompson James '24, Laura Scudder Williamson '24, Theodate John-
son '25, Gertrude Holbrook '25, Frances Howard O'Brien '25, Catherine
Blunt Pierson '25, Elizabeth Ward Saunders '25, Elizabeth Righter Farrar
'25, Sydna White '27, Betty Jane Osborne Bacon '29, Gertrude Campion
Soutar '29, Roberta Kendall Kennedy '29, Katherine Kennedy Beardsley
'29, Ruth Whitehill Wygant '29, Nini Owsley Warwick '30, Alice Canoune
Coates '30, Doris Seiler '30, Harriet Gregory Morris '31, Marcia Rudd Keil
'31, Ruth Cann Baker '31, Marie Whitehill '31, Katharine Brigham '32,
Betty Weaver Van Wart '33, Barbara Worth Brown '33, Lillian Seiler '37,
Sally Sutor Parsons '38, Marie Appleby Severance '38, Marion Altreuter
Brightman '38, Lloyd Pierce Smith '39, Margit Hintz Lorenze '39, Ann Oak-
man '39, Sue Long Kremer '41, Margery Martin Martin '41, Ruth Rathbone
Hildreth '42.

OHIO CENTRAL (1921): President, Mrs. Bettina Rollins Wheeler '39;
Secretary-Treasurer, Mrs. Margaret Graham Greenleaf '28.

The club held a luncheon meeting on March 15, at the University Club,
Columbus. Mrs. Chipman brought the most recent Abbot news, to a group
from Newark and Columbus.

Those present were: Alice Fleek Miller '91, Kate Winegarner Spencer
'91, Louise Norpell Meek '09, Thelma Mazey Gager '19, Virginia Miller
Smucker '20, Margaret Graham Greenleaf '28, Bettina Rollins Wheeler '29,
Frances Flory Jones '30.

OHIO CLEVELAND (1927) : President, Mrs. Madeleine Fiske Worthing-
ton '13.

OLD COLONY CLUB (1924): President, Mrs. Ruth Murray Moore
'10; Secretary-Treasurer, Mrs. Martha Wind Finger '33. The annual meeting
will be held in October.

PITTSBURGH (1921): President, Mrs. Gertrude Miller Jackson '95;
Secretary, Mrs. Eliza Atwell Browne '87. A meeting is planned for this spring.

MANSFIELD, OHIO, has no organized club, but the following group
of alumnae met with Mrs. Chipman at luncheon on March 17, and later
introduced her to some delightful mothers with thirteen-year-old daughters:
Eleanor Black Draffan '16, Mary Baxter Wright '17, Peg Black Manz '33,
Dorothy Dann '16, Helen Keating Ott '24, Ann Loughridge '43.

In Memoriam

1887

Anna Bronson, widow of Dr. William W.
Root, died on February 15, in Ithaca, N. Y.
She is survived by three daughters, a son,
six grandsons, and seven granddaughters.
Her daughter, Mrs. G. Meredith Brill, has
sent a gift to the Abbot Second Century
Alumnae Fund, in her memory.

1889

Annie Dutton, widow of Alfred H. Colby,
died on April 7.

1891

M. Louise Storrs, wife of George P. Cowan,
died early in 1947.

1900

Lucy Hamilton, wife of Allan F. Ayers,
died on March 7, in Akron, Ohio, after a
long illness. "Through her illness she was the
embodiment of courage and cheerfulness,
truly a gallant spirit." She is survived by her
husband, a son, Allan Jr., and daughter,
Mrs. John V. Hower (Mary Ayers 1927),
and five grandchildren.

1908

Ruth Tucker died in November, 1945, at
Little Rock, Arkansas. After leaving Abbot
she attended the Wheelock School in Boston,
and later taught at the Springdale Country
Day School in Germantown, Pa. Later she
studied at Columbia University. She was on
the staff of the Arkansas Gazette for a number
of years, being editor of its Woman's Page.

1913

Enid Baush, wife of Ralph M. Patterson,
died suddenly on February 25, in Newton
Highlands. She is survived by her husband,
two daughters and a son.

From 1932 to 1934 she was president of the
Boston Abbot Club; and in 1937 she was
chairman of the then Abbot Alumnae In-
come Fund.

1920

Susan Dodge, wife of Paul O. Glover, died
on November 8, 1946, after a long illness.
She is survived by her husband and two
daughters, Natalie and Susanne.

Class News

1874-1890

Class Funds Secretary: Mrs. Ernest C.
Young (Ruth Childs), 6 Emerson St., Brook-
line.

1878

Charlotte Blodget Richards reports the
arrival of her seventh great-grandchild. In
February she celebrated her 90th birthday.

1887

Sixtieth Reunion

Greetings to our friends at Abbot:

In 1942, when four members of the Class
of '87 were at Abbot for our 55th anniver-
sary, a member of the graduating class asked
"Did '87 plant the Old Oak?" We do not
claim that honor but we do remember that
60 years ago there were 500 guests who
gathered on the lawn around the Old Oak to
greet the Alumnae Association and to con-
gratulate the 17 girls who would graduate
the next day. An old newspaper clipping

names it, "A novel and most pleasant feature
of the anniversary," and that the moving of
Smith Hall and the prospect for new build-
ings furnished topics for conversation. So,
although we did not plant, perhaps we did
help to start class gatherings around the old
tree!

As class secretary I may be expected to
give a few facts. The Class of '87 was organ-
ized in the fall of 1885 and a Constitution
adopted. Early in 1886 Alice Hamlin was
elected President, Jeanie Carter Vice-
President, and Mollie Ball Secretary and
Treasurer. Mollie resigned in 1907 and
Harriet Thwing took the office. After the
death of Alice Hamlin Hinman in 1934 the
office of President was added to that of Sec-
retary-Treasurer. Jeanie Carter Prall may
not know that she is still carried in our
Record Book as Vice-President.

The day following graduation we voted to
have a yearly class letter. Only once has the
package been lost. Really seventeen auto-

biographies. Ten of the girls have written of
their homes, children and grandchildren and
great-grandchildren. The others report as
teachers, artist, Curator in a College Art
Gallery, Librarian, foreign missionary, and
Assistant Secretary of Alpha Omega Alpha.
We think we write good letters!

For 33 years we could still say, "We are
seventeen." We had numerous reunions but
a few are outstanding. Our 42nd anniversary
came at the time of the Abbot Centennial.
Nine classmates, three husbands and two
daughters helped to celebrate that glorious
event. When we became the "Fifty Year
Class" we had twelve members living and
nine came to the reunion. For our 55th anni-
versary four members represented the nine
who were living. We greatly enjoyed the new
dormitory and the additions and changes to
the old buildings and the Means Memorial
Library.

I am also class treasurer and know that
we have carried out our class motto, "Als ich
kann". At graduation we gave generously
to the Draper Hall building fund and fur-
nished a student's room. (Who has the '87
room now?)

For this building fund we helped to start
that letter that later became a nuisance —
give a quarter and write four letters and so,
on and on. But it brought in several hundred
dollars. We were 100 per cent givers to the
Loyalty Endowment Fund of the Centennial
year. We rejoiced with our Emma Twitchell
Sturgis that it was her sister Alice Twitchell
'86, who was the Director of the enterprise
and with the help of alumnae and friends
could "pass over to Mr. Flagg the gift of
Si 60,000". We gave to a Lectureship Fund;
to the Memorial Gateway for Miss Merrill,
to the foreign missionary work that our Jean
Jillson was doing — and every time we were
asked for money. But our crowning gift was
the furnishing of the Reading Room in the
Means Memorial Library. Our Fiftieth An-
niversary Gift and the amount we gave the
Abbot Second Century Alumnae Fund made
this gift possible. We like the room and are
happy that we can have a large part in the
daily life of the students.

And now we are coming to our 60th mile-
stone. During the past five years three of our
faithful members have died. We are now six
"girls", older grown but in some ways not
very much changed. We are staying at home
and having a "paper reunion" by writing six

letters to you. Also we are sending a 60th
Reunion Gift to the Abbot Second Century
Alumnae Fund. "Als ich kann".

With best wishes to the Class of '47 and
congratulations to all students who have
spent part of their school days at Abbot in
Andover.

Sincerely yours,

Harriet H. Thwing
President, Secretary-Treasurer A. A. '87
975 East Blvd., Cleveland 8, Ohio

Class Reunion Chairman

Greetings to Abbot:

Sixty years is a long time but not so long
looking back as looking ahead! There is
something about Abbot and Andover that
keeps one young. In our class letters we are
still "girls." And thanks to our fine secretary,
Harriet Thwing, we have kept up those
letters all these years, and our interest in
Abbot is still warm.

We have the added interest in each other,
families, through children, grandchildren
and now great-grandchildren, and our in-
terest in these younger generations also
keeps us young.

Looking back we think of long walks,
tennis, ball games — while now for several of
us walking is limited — three of us with a
broken hip and Eliza Atwell with a back
which has caused her much suffering owing
to a fall many years ago.

For three years now I have stumped
around most awkwardly on crutches, and
am seldom able to get out, but owing to my
daughter Marion's business there is no lack
of interest or occupation in our daily lives.
She and two assistants have in our home a
nursery school of 32 children from two and
a half years to five years of age, and there is
not a dull moment from nine a.m., to noon.
Imagine putting on thirty snow suits, thirty
pair of galoshes, mittens and caps! Their
interests and occupations are certainly varied
and one never knows what is going on in
those busy little minds.

With my crutches I am an unfailing source
of interest. "Why do you use those sticks?
Can you get on them yourself? What did you
do to your hind leg?"

Letters from grandsons in the air and
medical corps in China and Panama have
kept us in close touch with world affairs.

We are sorry not to have a successful re-
union like '86, but circumstances prevent
that, so we can only send loving remem-
brance to Abbot.

Jeanie Carter Prall '87
314 Cornelia St.
Boonton, N.J.

Dear Mother Abbot: Sixty years ago this
June, we, the Class of '87, stood facing our
schoolmates, relatives and friends in Old
South Church, and confidently sang "Father,
I know that all my life is portioned out to
me. The changes that are sure to come, I do
not fear to see."

We were seventeen in number then; now
we are only six. The changes have come,
losses, sickness, accidents and usual vicissi-
tudes of life. Among our class songs, was a
simple little ditty that went like this: "Days
at old Abbot will quickly fly by; And when
they are gone, I fear we shall cry." I assure
you that we have not cried. I can speak with
authority, when I say for my classmates,
that all these trials have been met with high
courage and Christian fortitude. I know
because we have kept in close touch all these
years, with a "Round Robin" letter. I have
the budget now and am about to send it on
its way for probably more than the sixtieth
time.

One of my classmates has suggested that
I tell you about an amusing experience I
had, during my first days at Abbot. I was
rather a homesick girl that first week end.
One of the old girls, taking pity on my lone-
liness, came to me and asked, "Will you give
me a quarter, Sunday?" Somewhat sur-
prised, I replied, "Why, yes, I can give you
one now." She laughed, and then explained
to me the Sunday program of those days —
Breakfast one half hour later than week days;
silent half-hour, when each girl had her
room quite to herself; church, and the com-
ing together with a teacher to give a report
of the sermon, then dinner, and the after-
noon in our rooms for writing our home
letters. From 4-5 p.m. came the "Quarters";
girls were permitted to spend the time visit-
ing with each other, either in their rooms, or
walking in the Grove, a quarter of an hour
with each girl. Thence came the familiar
question, "Will you give me a quarter, Sun-
day?" I do not know if the custom still per-
sists, or if not, when it was discontinued.

As for myself, during all these years, my
life has been uneventful, no great deeds to
report, nothing of wide interest; just kept
busy living. My husband has been gone from
earth for more than twenty years, but chil-
dren have been loyal and true. Three years
ago I suffered a broken hip, but even that
has had its compensations, so on the whole
I can truly say with the Psalmist, "The lines
are fallen unto me in pleasant places."

I do not expect to come back to greet you,
this June, "Dear Alma Mater"; I am not
sure that I want to come, for I think that I
should wander "Lonely as a cloud", amid
the scenes of by-gone days. Memories cannot
but have a touch of sadness, remembering
and missing those who have gone from us;
wondering who will be next, and when my
own turn will come. I can only keep repeat-
ing the words of S. D. Ryman,

"Let me be brave, or failing that,
Bravely pretend that I am so.
There are full many terrors here,
Such things as break the strong, I know.

"But let me walk as without fear,
Hold fast to all the Good I see;
For there are some, who in my train,
Will stand or fall along with me."

With enduring affection for "Abbot"
and gratitude for its influence upon my life,
Your devoted daughter,

Angie Dunton Purrington '87
1 1 76 Broad St.
Bloomfield, N. J.

Greetings to Abbot and to the Class of '87 :

Although we grieve for the recent loss of
three classmates who were always faithful in
attending our reunions, six of our original
members still carry on the yearly class letter
and maintain warm interest in each other
and Abbot. Frailties of age coupled with
distance, — for we are dispersed across the
continent from Massachusetts to California,
— may prevent a meeting for our sixtieth
anniversary, but we shall send a gift to Abbot
on her Alumnae Day and have planned to
exchange messages through the Bulletin.

Accordingly I report for myself that while
physical limitations constrain me to read and
write much less than I wish and to spend
more time in bed than is desirable, I still
enjoy three main interests: church, garden

and clubs. For sixty years I have been a
member of Query Club and act as its alter-
nate leader. Of the Woman's Club, I am a
charter member and am scheduled to give a
reminiscent talk of its early days for the semi-
centennial meeting in April. The garden
gives me both delight and relaxation, for I
merely supervise the work — the lovely
flowers and fresh vegetables are the fruit of
other people's labor. Much of my attention
is given to the Sewickley Presbyterian
Church where I have had the pleasure of
carrying out some long-cherished plans. A
small volume I am presenting to the Abbot
Library explains just what these plans have
been. During the past two years three me-
morials of my own designing were placed in
the church building. First, a stained glass
"Praise Window", whose theme is centered
on the Long Metre Doxology, was dedicated
in a special service as a family memorial.
Then a carved oak tablet bearing a roster of
the church's ministers was installed in mem-
ory of my father. And finally the little
"Book of Memorials" which describes and
illustrates all the memorials in the church,
including the window and the roster, was
published in remembrance of my husband.
It has been a great satisfaction to see these
three brain-children take visible shape.
Another task now on hand is preparing for
publication the records of the church cen-
tennial celebration which took place in 1938.
Papers concerning it, that were mislaid after
the death of the chairman directing the oc-
casion, recently came to light and were sent
to me as chairman of the historical commit-
tee. It is slow work picking up dropped
stitches, but I hope this volume of church
history will be finished eventually. I really
seem to be in the memorial business, for next
week, as sole survivor of the Browne family,
I am to present to the University of Pitts-
burgh a room in the Cathedral of Learning
which was planned by my sister-in-law in
memory of her parents, but unfortunately
was not finished until after her death. This
beautiful room is a "museum piece," in-
tended to typify a Pittsburgh home of the
early part of the century. Its furnishings,
derived entirely from the Browne home-
stead, include the handsome cases contain-
ing my brother-in-law's collection of fine
books and so many familiar articles that one
feels transported into the very atmosphere of
the old home. This memorial is most ap-

propriately placed, since the Cathedral is
built on the former Browne property and the
room, overlooking a magnificent view of the
city from the 33rd floor, is almost directly
above the site of the original Browne house.
The presentation will take place at a simple
dedication service on Sister Anna's birthday,
when only a small group of relatives and old
friends will join the University officials, but I
view the occasion with a bit of alarm as a
totally new sort of experience. My life in
general moves along a quiet course among
books and flowers and friends, but now and
then it marks a red letter day on the calen-
dar. And the coloring would be exception-
ally brilliant if perchance I could attend
Anniversary Day at Abbot and express my
greetings and good wishes in person.

Eliza Atwell Browne '87

529 Pine Rd.

Sewickley, Pa.

To Abbot and her girls, far and near,
Greetings from one of the girls of '87. We are
not old, we have just lived through various
experiences, and though it may be that our
60th reunion should be this June, yet it
seems only yesterday that our diplomas were
given us in the Old South Church and our
thoughts are just as loving as ever for the
happy days we spent in school and the friends
we had there and the friendships that have
lasted are as strong as ever, today. Our
gratitude to dear old Abbot is very deep, for
we owe her much that has made us what we
are.

We may not be able to come back this year
to tell her of our love and loyalty, but we
send to her and to those who were girls with
us and to all her girls our warmest greetings.

May Abbot grow in strength and influ-
ence, year by year, and may we, her daugh-
ters, be an honor to her, wherever we may be.

Jean Jillson '87
536 West 6th St.
Claremont, Cal.

Sixty years since I left my dear old Abbot,
who ever would believe it!

Sizzling and fretting a bit but by the grace
of my blessed Saviour I'm a happy old thing
(in spite of the appalling world conditions)
just waiting for the coming of my Lord and
King.

"Trust in the Lord with all thy heart,
and lean not unto thine own understand-

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Sophia Walker Piper '87
38 South Bow St.
Milford, Mass.

1891

Judge Frederic M. Black, husband of
Alice Hinkley, died suddenly on March 27,
in Newark, Ohio.

1892

Fifty-fifth Reunion

Calling all people who left Abbot with
Miss McKeen in 1892: Come if you possibly
can to celebrate this anniversary on May 3 1 ,
by skooter, helicopter or rocket, according
to the distance. If you can't manage it, send
your RSVP to the Alumnae Office and be
sure to tune in to Station AAAA to hear all
the goings-on.

Jane B. Carpenter '92

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Jane B. Car-
penter, 32 Shepard St., Apt. 22, Cambridge.

Murtie Woodman Lane writes: "I began
my serious study of piano with Prof. Downs
at Abbot, 1892-1893, and have continued to
study ever since. Played at the Pianists Club
here in Fond du Lac in December, and ex-
pect to play again in April. I'm living with
my daughter, son-in-law and grandchild."

1893

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Harry R.
Miles (Anna Nettleton), 4 Rock Ledge Drive,
Stamford, Conn.

1894

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Doremus
Scudder (Mabel Bosher), 133 West Ninth
St., Claremont, Calif.

1896

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Henry V.
Conant (Ruth Loring), 914 High St., Ded-
ham.

1897
Fiftieth Anniversary

1898

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Robert W.
Dunbar (Selina Cook), 3 Elk St., Apt. 7,
Albany, N. Y.

1900

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Arthur P.
Spear ''Grace Chapman^, 156 Winchester
St., Brookline.

Winona Algie is retiring this June from her
position as Headmistress of The Charles
River School, in Dover, Mass. Through her
many years as head of the school it has be-
come an outstanding school for children of
preparatory years.

Helen Abbott is recovering from a long
and serious illness. She hopes to be at her
home in Rockport this summer.

Emma Bixby Place has spent the winter at
Zephyrhills, Fla.

Alice Wood Hodgdon has been on a motor
trip to Mexico with Alice Titcomb Burke '99,
and her family.

1901

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Helen Hale,
86 Knox St., Lawrence.

Clara Thomson Knox held a very successful
exhibition of paintings in the New Art Club
gallery at Quincy, Illinois, in January.

Keep the Alumnae Office informed of
changes in address.

1902

Forty-fifth Reunion

1947. Spring. Graduation, Alumnae Fund,
Reunion !

Let's pause for a moment to think back
and try to recapture a little of the Class of
'02 spirit, a spirit fostered by the companion-
ship of young girls thrown together, fortu-
nate enough to enjoy one of the finest expe-
riences life has to offer, that of a liberal educa-
tion. Maybe if we came back to Reunion we
might get a little of that old feeling again.
So let's see if we can't be at Abbot on Alum-
nae Day, May 3 1 .

Mildred Mooers Poore
37 Ames St.
Lawrence, Mass.

Reunion Chairman and
Class Fund Secretary

Mildred Mooers Poore's son, Dr. George C.
Poore, was married February 8 to Mary
Elizabeth Adney, in Philadelphia. She has a
new grandson, born to her oldest son, Charles,
whose family now consists of two boys and a
girl.

1904

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. William O.
Pettit (Elizabeth Winsor), 186 Livingston
Ave., Brunswick. N.J.

Helen Childs Baldwin sends the following
family news. "I have a new grandson, born
January 29. Nicholas Burpo. His mother, my
daughter Betty, is now living in Amherst.
with her two other children. Alden and
Kathryn Louise. Her husband is Professor of
Physics at Mass. State College. My daughter
Ruth is again teaching Math, at the Shipley
School in Bryn Mawr. The first of May my
son Frederic will head up the Remington-
Rand Tabulating Machines, as maintenance
man at National Life Insurance Co. at Mont-
pelier, Vt. I am still in Scouting, but lately
have gone on the Y.W-.C.A. Board."

1906

Persis Mackintire Carr is successfully carry-
ing on her husband's decorating business.
Her son Winthrop, has resigned from the
Navy, and with his family is living tempo-
rarily with Persis.

Rena Porter Hastings' son Lawrence has a
second child, a daughter, Caroline Wheeler,
born April 6.

1907

Fortieth Reunion

, All seems to be going well for members of
1907. So far, we have word from nine; five
acceptances and four regrets. We are glad the
regrets were necessary because of being bus-
ily engaged, and not from illness. We hope
to have a full report from every one of you
for our reunion.

Alice Webster Brush

1 108 Adams St.

Dorchester 24, Mass.

Reunion Chairman

Marjory Bond Crowley has a second grand-
son, Joel Bond Crowley, born November 29,
1946.

Margaret Hall Walker has a married son
and small grandchild, Christine, born
August 15, 1946, living in Miami. She re-
grets being unable to attend reunion.

Laura Howell is still with the State Dept.
of Institutions and Agencies in Trenton,
N. J., where she has been for twenty years.
Her work is in an advisory capacity, relating
to the care and problems of older people.

Clara Hukill Leeds reports a very busy

year. "My year has been spent Hying back
and forth to Florida, where I decorated a
hotel, furnished twelve cottages and two big
houses, also a very gay bath house Casino.
My family came down and we settled in
Naples for two months of superb weather.
Please give my love to everybody."

Ri Pillsbury Hawkes hopes "nothing will
prevent my being with you all on May 31
and June 1 . My son. H. Scott Taylor, has
been appointed Supt. of the State Park at
Thermopolis, Wyoming, and takes over his
duties April 1 . His wife will run their business
which is "The Star Plunge" also situated in
the Park. My daughter, Rosamond Taylor
Jensen '35, lives in Hampden. Mass. She has
two sons. I continue to sell contents of
houses, estates or otherwise."

Mabel Rhodes Manter's daughter, Mabel
Jr.. has a second daughter, Nancy Falls
Jones.

Anna May Richards Folsom is hoping to get
back for reunion. Her fourth grandchild is
"ten days old. Sanford Stoddard." Her third,
Carolyn Saunders, was born on January 15.

Louise Richards Rollins' fourth daughter,
Sydney, is to be married on May 3 1 .

1908

Esther Parker Lovett has joined the grand-
mother ranks with the birth of a daughter,
Eugenia, to her daughter, Eugenia Lovett
West, April 19.

1909

Edith Gardner Merriam has been teaching
violin and piano to children the past winter
in Dennysville, Maine, where she has been
living with her mother and brother, except
for a few months of work at the Bangor Chil-
dren's Home, since breaking up her home in
Worcester after her husband's death in 1944.
Her son George, who was in the service in
Italy, is studying for a master's degree in
history at Brown University.

1910

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Myron G.
Darby (Ethel Reigeluth), no Tanglewylde
Ave., Bronxville, N. Y.

1911

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Douglas Don-
ald (Edith Johnson), 8 Carisbrooke St., An-
dover.

EDITORIAL BOARD, GLASS BOOK 1907
Seated: Alice Webster, Maria Pillsbury, Leonora Parsons, Harriet Seaton
Standing: Edith Gutterson, Mabel Rhodes, Laura Howell

1912
Thirty-fifth Reunion

Reunion Chairman: Barbara Moore Pease,
Lincoln Lane, New Britain, Conn.

Florence Bliss Ferguson writes, "My son is
married and lives in Grand Rapids, Mich.
I keep busy working for Red Cross and War
Chest, and taking care of a large house with
no servant. Time marches on so fast that I
can't believe it is our 35th reunion, and it
makes me feel very ancient. I can't go back
to Andover, as we plan a trip to Grand
Rapids in June."

Avis Tobey Johnson writes, "Since Abbot
I have had a full life taking care of a family
of five. I lost my oldest son seven years ago.
My two oldest daughters are married, and I

have six grandchildren. My other daughter
does secretarial work in Brockton, and
Stuart is a freshman in high school, hoping
to go to West Point sometime. I have been in
a number of clubs, helping civic projects. I do
wish I could come to Abbot."

Barbara Moore Pease's son, Maurice H.
Pease, Jr., was married to Dorothea Stork,
March 26.

1913

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Margaret
Wilkins, 279 N. Euclid Ave., Pasadena,
Calif.

Marion Parshley's mother, Mrs. Emma
Louise Parshley, died on March 21.

IN MEMORIAM

ENID BAUSH PATTERSON, '13

Hers was a life that went its quiet way;

No banners flung on high, her victories flaunted,

But with a quip she won or lost the day

And win or lose, herself remained undaunted.

Her friends and loved ones were her firmament
For whom her heart in service found release,
And there was none who needed her but went
Companioned by her courage and her peace.

Helen Danforth Prudden 191 3

ENID

God smiled one day — that was Enid.

Now — in the depths of my heart

Dry-twisted by stabbing pain

God smiles once more

"She has been born again."

Stalwart, brave, and free her life —

She gave in love, in work — in play and duty.

Her friendship was a sacred trust

That brooked no weakness.

Deep-buried in the earth

Yet one with the living sun

No meager life she lived,

Knowing the buoyance of whitest fleeting clouds,

The mystical quiet of the moon,

The steadfastness of the stars,

She sought always God's verities!

She lives again!

Her heart — forever flowing

As a brook in Spring!

HlLDEGARDE GuTTERSON SMITH I914

1914

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Elsie G. Sloan
(Elsie Gleason), 67 Mt. Vernon St., Boston.

Margaret Wylie Ware writes, "After Mar-
garet Blake's death I didn't write to Abbot at
all. Then when the war came and my son
served and I saw letters in the Bulletin
about other Abbot girls' sons, I wanted to
add my bit. Well, my son Jack re-enlisted in
the Army Air Corps. He is in Tucson, Ariz.
Am keeping house for my 87-year-old moth-
er. One has to have a hobby and so five years
ago I started doing some oil crayon work,
landscapes. My pictures are not large — about
12 by 14 inches, but they have a "glow"
about them that has attracted the attention
of art critics in town, and I was admitted as
an exhibiting member at the local art center
here in town . . . Hello to every dear girl
of 1914."

From Harriet Bcwman Meeker we hear,
"My son returned safely from 18 months in
New Guinea, the Philippines and Japan and
is now back at Purdue University. My
daughter is to be married in May. My hus-
band has been elected president of the com-
pany with which he has been associated ever
since he graduated from Purdue in 1 9 1 3, the
J. D. Adams Co. They make road machinery
and naturally we are very 'road conscious' at
our house."

1915

From Muriel Baker Wood we hear of her
important work in Germany. "I'll tell you a
little of how I am putting in the occupation.
I am working in the Adult Education Sec-
tion, Education and Religious Affairs, Office
of the Military Government in Berlin. Two
of us in this headquarters have charge of the
60-odd Adult Education Schools scattered
throughout the American Zone, and of about
the same number of miscellaneous organiza-
tions, to say nothing of literally thousands of
public libraries. To say that we are under-
staffed is an understatement.

"In our free time we put in hours at the
Youth Centers where young Germany con-
gregates to get warm and get something to
eat, to play and to learn. A new club this
week has seven hundred members enrolled in
two days. I have my own little project too,
with the German war wounded at the Ger-
man hospital. Today I made plans to start a

course in English for crippled German pa-
tients.

"The Negro tenor arrived looking blue-
black in his snappy WD uniform. He sang
and sang, 'Deep River', 'I've Got Shoes',
'Swanee River', 'Old Black Joe'. Their
faces were serious but intent. Then came a
few halting questions. What did he think of
German music? He spoke of his struggle to
get an education at N.Y.U., working days,
studying nights. He spoke with pride of his
five years in the Navy with 'The Admiral'.
He promised to come again — a gracious and
talented guest, and the first contact these
Germans have made with what they call the
'Negro problem'. They are most curious to
see how the minorities in other countries are
treated.

"There has been a lot of suffering this
winter. The shortages affect all, regardless of
nationality or political affiliation. The Amer-
icans too, have been short on heat, light,
practically everything.

"My greetings to any members of the
class who remember me."

Address: ERA Branch, I A & C Division
OMGUS, APO 742, % PM, New York,
N. Y.

1916

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. James E.
Downs (Laura Cheever), Bancroft Rd.,
Andover, Mass.

1917

Thirtieth Reunion

Girls of 191 7. We are looking forward to
seeing you the last of May for our 30th
reunion. Our children are grown up and
there is plenty of gas this year, so come and
make it the best reunion yet. fie sure to bring
or send in all the news you can gather. See
you soon.

Miriam Bacon Chellis
15 Raymond Ave.
Beverly, Mass.
Reunion Chairman

Esther Davis Smith's son, David Burr
Smith, was married to Nancy Gray Overton,
on April 19.

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Oliver D.
Westcott (Dorothy Small), 84 Main St.,
Nantucket, Mass.

1918

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. George J.
Cutler (Velma Rowell), 45 Eliot St., Ja-
maica Plain.

1919

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Grace L.
Boynton (Grace Leyser), 30 Engle St.,
Tenafly,N.J.

Grace Boynton has just been elected presi-
dent of the New York Abbot Club.

Margaret Taylor Stainton's husband,
Robert Stainton, is teaching at Case School
in Cleveland, where he is Professor of Me-
chanical Engineering. Her son Bob is attend-
ing the Putney School in Vermont.

1920

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Beverly Hub-
bard (Muriel Moxley), 172 Putnam Ave.,
Hamden, Conn.

Helen Thiel Gravengaard's husband, H.
Peter Gravengaard, has been elected Vice-
President of the National Underwriter Com-

pany.

1921

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. David H.
Bigelow (Marion Kimball), 326 Highland
St., West Newton.

1922

Twenty-fifth Reunion

v Reunion Chairman: Janet Warren Wins-
low, 57 Pinewood Rd., Needham, Mass.

Jane Baldwin plans to be present at re-
union. For seventeen years she has been with
the Irving Trust Co., first in the investment
department, and now in Estates and Trusts.
She is enjoying it immensely. Betty Brewster
Thompson will not be able to come. Her
husband, Princeton '24, has an office in
Derby, Conn., is busy with civil engineering
and land surveying. Her daughter, Marver-
elle, will be sixteen this summer, is a sopho-
more at the Day School in New Haven.
They live with Betty's father and mother.
She says, "Remember me to 1922 most cor-
dially and have a grand time when you get
together."

Catherine Damon Mason will be present.
She has three children, Joan 2 1 , doing medi-
cal research work; Anne 20, secretary; Bill
12, at school. She's doing household chores
* 'of which there is no end; spending one day
a week at Gray Lady work at Camp Kilmer
hospital."

Kay Damon Kletzien is hopeful of return-
ing. She has four lovely children, Edith 15,
Phyllis 13, and two boys, Damon and Ralph.
Her husband, Seymour, was overseas for
some time and now is working in Hartford,
and trying to find a place for the family to
live.

Mildred Burford Dildy writes, "I'm sure
sorry not to be able to be back for reunion. I
would love to see all of you. In '48 we plan
to come East for our son Jerry's graduation
from West Point. I have a thirteen-year-old
daughter Jane whom we plan to bring with
us. Give everyone my love."

Gertrude Franklin Lowell thinks she may
be able to get in a few of the doings at Abbot.
Her son graduates at Governor Dummer in
June. Her daughter Virginia is a freshman at
Wellesley "where she seems to be mixing
dates with studying and doing very well."
Kay Gage, Sister Mary Anselm, is novice
mistress at St. Mary's Convent, Peekskill,
N. Y. She writes, "I'm trying to get ready to
take the finals for my master's degree at
Columbia this spring. My hobbies are ghost
stories and gardening." Olive Howard Vance
is running her husband's business until he
has recovered his health. Her oldest daugh-
ter Carolyn will be married May 25, and
Gale, her oldest son, will move his family into
a house he has bought. So "reunion seems
rather uncertain." Helen Knight Wilkinson
expects to be at reunion. Her son, Chad-
bourne Graves, enlisted last August in the
USA after graduating from Phillips, and is
now a member of the Medical Corp con-
nected with the Food Inspection detachment
stationed in Italy. Wendy, aged four, is in
kindergarten and Linda, two, keeps her
busy. Helen is Andover chairman of the
Women's Educational Committee for the
Children's Hospital new Medical Center in
Boston.

Sissy Kunhel Rahill says, "I hope to get to
Andover for reunion this year. My son is
graduating from Kimball Union Academy,
Meriden, N. H., this June and I shall be
coming up that way. I shall probably bring
my youngest daughter, eight, with me. My
older daughter, who has always been con-
fined to a wheel chair, is a junior at Calawba
College, N. C. I do a little secretarial work
for my cousin who is Representative in Con-
gress from this district, and that combined
with necessary domestic duties keeps me
rather busy." Florence Phillips Cooke is

planning to come. She has three boys and a
daughter. James, a junior at Kimball Union
Academy, Phillips Carter a freshman also at
Kimball, Johnson in the seventh grade, and
Nancy in second grade. They are all ski
enthusiasts and spent the Christmas holidays
at the Chantecler at Ste. Adele in the Lau-
rentians.

Susie Root Adams says she hopes to be at
reunion. Her husband is having his 25th re-
union at Law School. Faneuil Jr. is being
married in June, and they move to Duxbury
for the summer at that time. Faneuil is in
Harvard Law School after three and one-
half years in the paratroops. A son, thirteen,
is at Shady Hill School in Cambridge.

Marian Rugg Cay wood says she "can't be
East for reunion, but would love to see the
girls. My Abby and I spent her spring vaca-
tion in New Orleans. This summer we expect
to pick her up at camp and be in Michigan
for August. Jess Patton and her family were
in Florida with our parents this winter. Love
to all." Kay Weeks Plaisted writes that she
has a boy thirteen who will be ready for prep
school next year, and a girl whom she hopes
will go to Abbot. They have a camp at Mere-
dith where they spend the summer. Her hus-
band's hobby is boats.

Anne Whinery is seriously considering
making the trip from Richmond, Va., for
reunion.

Alice Van Schmus Smith has three daugh-
ters, Ann, Ellen and Maggy, of whom she
and her husband are very proud. They keep
her busy so she doesn't have time for much
outside activity.

Betty Whittemore is in Honolulu. "My
best aloha to all my class on this 25th re-
union. I wish I could be with you and put
around your necks the lovely Hawaiian leis
of friendship. I live at Wannawiki, which
used to be one of the fabulous old ranches,
and is the place where Princess Liliokalawi
wrote 'Aloha Oe.' Wish I could be with
you."

Jimmy Burr Sanders says, "I expect to at-
tend our 25th reunion and am looking for-
ward to it. About my family; last year I lost
my father, Mr. G. B. Burr of Bangor, Maine.
On January my oldest daughter Barbara,
Abbot '42, was married to Wilton W. Dad-
mun. They are now residing in Miami, Fla.,
where he is attending Miami University.
My youngest daughter Carol attends Colby
Junior College, and likes it very much. Dur-

ing the war I worked in the office of a de-
fense plant producing radar. Now I do volun-
teer work for Motor Corps, Newton Red
Cross Chapter."

Gwen Blocmfield Tillson writes, "Bob was
in the Navy 38 months and is back at Dart-
mouth, is to be married June 21st. Dick is
18 and is finishing his freshman year at
Dartmouth. Debbie is in the second grade.
See you in June."

Lib Hutchinson Graham reports that, "My
eldest daughter Joan is at Endicott Junior
College. Margot is in high school, and Bobbie
still in grammar school. Arch has gone into
the real estate and insurance business for
himself. He is completely wrapped up in
trout fishing in the spring. Is there any fishing
near Andover? What about Olive and Suzie
Root and Jimmy Burr? Will they get back?"

Marion Saunders Chesborough plans to
attend reunion. Her oldest son has just re-
turned from eleven months in Germany.
The second son will enter University of N.C.
in September, and the youngest will be at
home.

Beatrice Goff is working in Springfield,
Ohio, "as Executive Director of the Y.W.
C.A. If there are any Abbot girls nearby tell
them to let me know. Greetings to every-
body."

1923

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Sterling Dow
(Elizabeth Flagg), 36 Holden St., Cam-
bridge.

1924

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. A. John Hol-
den (Polly Bullard), 39 Mt. Pleasant St.,
Middlebury, Vt.

Marjorie Wolfe Staples says, "Still pursu-
ing my hobby of writing; current specialty
being short, short-stories of which, through a
literary agent, two have recently been
bought by a magazine named Business Farm-
ing, published in Sherbourne, N. Y. None of
my classmates live near, but I did have the
pleasure of a visit by Mad Shepard in No-
vember."

1925

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. George B.
Beveridge (Charlotte Hanna), Sanfordtown
Rd., Redding, Conn.

Dorothy Beeley Marsh reports, "Am now
back in Massachusetts after fifteen years in

California and two in Michigan. Would like
to have any Abbot girls near Worcester come
to see me at my new address : Christian Hill
Farm, Barre, Mass."

Time to enter your daughter for 1 948 and
1949! Write to Abbot for a catalogue.

1926

Charles H. Sawyer, husband of Katharine
Clay, has been named Director of Yale Uni-
versity's division of the arts, and Dean of the
Yale School of the Fine Arts. They will go to
New Haven from Worcester, where he is
Director of the Art Museum.

1927
Twentieth Reunion

Message from Sydna White, Reunion Chair-
man, 391 Bleecker St., New York 14, N. Y.
Hello '27. Those of you still hoping to get to
reunion will be cheered by the news that
about half the class expect to be back. There
are 15 members who live in Massachusetts,
and ten others from other states, who have
already written that they hope to make it.
Miriam Houdlette, chairman of arrange-
ments for the dinner to be held Saturday
night, has reserved the private dining room
at the Andover Inn where we will meet at
^ p.m. in order to have a good three-hour
session before the school evening program.
Let these bits of news inspire you. Double
your effort and come too!

Helen Amesse wrote a good full letter from
Denver where she is in the University of
Denver Library. She suggests that a Round
Robin should be started for the benefit of
girls too far from Andover to return. Her
address is: 1675 Kearney, Denver 7, Colo.
Friends please notice.

Mary Ayers Hower who hasn't been back
for 15 years, at least, hopes to come on from
Akron, Ohio.

Persis Goodnow Brown is to be on hand.
Her daughter Jane, president of the senior
class, took the part of Susan Throssel in
Quality Street, the senior play, the same part
Persis herself took in 1927!

Kay Farlow Hutchinson writes of her busy
life as the mother of two boys, and the wife
of the manager of a gold mine. She is in
Goodyears Bar, Calif.

Mary Knight Reeves writes from Lexing-
ton, Ky., that her husband is assistant pro-

fessor of Political Science at the University of
Kentucky. He is at present on leave of ab-
sence and working to get voters' support for a
convention for the purpose of writing a new
state constitution, considered by many to be
needed. Mary has three children, ages nine,
five and three.

June Hinman Marques reports three sons,
Roy Hinman, born February 10, 1937; John
Walter, born February 28, 1943, and Paul
Robert, born March 20, 1946. Her husband
is a marine engineer.

Ruth Perry sends greetings from Midland,
Mich., where she is secretary to the president
of the Dow Chemical Co.

Edna Russell Watson plans to come. This
is the first time she has been able to make it.

Some of you are still to be heard from.
Whether or not you can come, please send in
the questionnaires you received from me,
with good full answers. We want snapshots
too. But most of all we want to see YOU.

Sydna

1928

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Emily Sloper,
36 Russell St., New Britain, Conn.

Isabelle Bartlett Hogue reports two chil-
dren, Steven Breck Hogue, nine, and Pa-
tricia Ann, six years old. Isabelle is Girl
Scout Volunteer-Chairman of Organization,
in the Louisville, Ky. Council.

Beatrice Lane Mercer sent from Sarasota,
Fla., an attractive snapshot of herself and
family. She writes, "We have a well-furnished
cheery cottage on the beach, and we are all
enjoying ourselves immensely. The children
go to school except four-year-old Ruthie."

1929

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Laurent A. Daloz
(Lois Hardy), a son, Charles Roland, April 4.

Eleanor Jones Bennett writes of the sad
loss of her daughter Patricia, on January 15.

1930

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Jack R. War-
wick (Mary Jane Owsley), 26 Ledgewood
Rd., Bronxville, N. Y.

Born: to Mr. and Mrs. George A. Jenkins
(Janice Lovell), a fourth child, Richard
Thomas, November 24, 1946.

1931

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Francis Hol-
land (Barbara Graham), 644 Orchard St.,
East Lansing, Mich.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. David L. Babson
(Katherine Allen), a third child, a daughter,
Katherine Lockhart, January 5.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Harold C. God-
dard (Betty Dix), twin sons, Clifford Turner
and Carlton Dix, April 1 1 . John is three
years old.

Married: Harriet Gregory Weatherly to
Forris W. Morris Jr.

Nancy Carr Holmes is with her husband in
Japan. She says, "We are near Sapporo, on
the island of Hokkaido. As we are so far
north the climate is very much like New
England, and there are all kinds of winter
sports. The army has provided very nice
living quarters for all dependents, there is no
servant problem as the Japanese govern-
ment provides them. If there are other Abbot
girls over here I wish they would get in
touch with me." Address: % Capt. J. D.
Holmes 0-300415. Hqs. Co. 2nd Bn. 187
Glider Inf., nth Airborne A P O 468,
% Postmaster, San Francisco, Cal.

1932

Fifteenth Reunion

Greetings '32 — I hope many of you are
now making your plans for our 15th Reun-
ion, and especially for the Luncheon on
Saturday, May 31st. If you can't come, how
about a letter telling us all the news — to be
read at Reunion? The holiday weekend
seems to be a busy time for some of you, but
we'd all like to know where you are and
what you're doing. If you'll drop me a note
sometime soon I'll guarantee to make copies
of those received and send them around to
those of you not able to be in Andover.
How about it? Send off a letter today.

Yours,

Betty Boyce
154 Main St.
Andover, Mass.
Reunion Chairman

Helen Allen Henry says, "I find being an
Alumna Trustee of Abbot one of the most re-
warding experiences I have ever had. I
heartily recommend it! My home, three sons,
volunteer work, plus trying to raise seven
million dollars for Smith keeps me busy —
plus!"

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Norman P. Hamil-
ton (Marian Dix), a second child, a daugh-
ter Barbara, April 9.

Mary Thompson Sherman writes, "My

daughter Nancy, three and one-half years
old, will be starting nursery school in the fall. I
am on the Board of the Rhode Island Welles-
ley Club which will soon be busy raising
money for the 75th Anniversary Fund. I am
indeed sorry I shall be unable to come to re-
union."

Dorothy Rockwell is "still with the Wash-
ington Bureau of the Philadelphia Inquirer
and an international vice-president of the
American Newspaper Guild (CIO). Greet-
ings to all who get to Andover. Any news
from LUCY DRUMMOND, MIX HYDE,
CLARE SMITH or BETTY WEAVER?"

Betty Bigler de Masi writes, "Betty Boyce
and Georgia Thomson blew into Washington
for overnight March 24, and we had a fine
reunion together. I find living near Washing-
ton I see many old friends. We are in the
telephone book and I hope, "gals of '32", I'll
be seeing more of you some day."

Married: Marietta Marshall to Dr. John
A. Dudis, May 18, 1946. Address: 181 Main
St., Athol.

1933

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Robert D.
Johnson (Margaret Chase), 100 Stuyvesant
PL, St. George, Staten Island, X T . Y.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Roger R. Valken-
burgh (Alice Schultz), a second child and
first son, Roger Ransom, February 15.

Louise McClary is working as Medical
Secretary in Boston.

Martha Whipple Davis writes, "We have
bought a larger house to accommodate our
three Abbot prospects, Sally eleven, Xancy
nine, and Susan two years old next Xovem-
ber.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. A. Lawrence Van
Wart (Betty Weaver) , a daughter, Gretchen,
Xovember 9, 1946.

1934

Hope Humphreys took top honors for
women entrants in the coveted Roch Tro-
phy ski races, held at Aspen, Colo. She com-
pleted the hazardous 1.6 miles, 2,400 ft. drop
in 2.35 minutes. She also won the women's
slalom event.

Sally O'Reilly Loria reported on her inter-
esting summer. "W T e spent the summer in
Italy, where we visited ray husband's family
in Florence. It was wonderful to meet them
all and to hear about their experiences dur-
ing the war. I hope more will send in news,

it's always interesting to know what the old
friends are doing."

1935

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Prescott Coan
(Frances McTernen) , a son, Jeffrey Prescott,
January 26.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Norman S. Lane
(Cecile Van Peursem), a second son, Richard
King, January 9.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. William H. Mor-
ton (Phyllis Harding), a son, William H.
Morton Jr., March 21.

Notify the Alumnae Office promptly of
any change of address.

1936

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. William J. Starr
Jr. (Marion Mooney), a third child, second
daughter, Ellen Lyons, November 24, 1946.

Married: Barbara Souther to Lt. Col.
Frederick J. Cooke, December 27, 1946.
Address: 10B Forsyth Ave., Fort Riley, Kans.

1937
Tenth Reunion

Reunion Chairman : Joan Todd Wilkinson,
Tinton Ave., Eatontown, N.J.

A large reunion is anticipated; come if you
possibly can make it, for Alumnae Day or
longer.

Thelma Cutter is in Germany with the Air
Force Statistical Control Unit, expects to
return next September.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Kirk-
patrick (Betty Inman), a son, Allan Murray,
February 5.

Martha Ransom Tucker has been elected
the new president of the Boston Abbot Club.

Joan Todd Wilkinson has a new adopted
daughter, Nina, born January 3, bringing
her family to three children.

Jeannette Partridge Harrison and family
are busy doing over an old house in Nor-
wood.

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Arthur W.
Tucker (Martha E. Ransom), 632 Great
Plain Rd., Needham.

1938

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Mansfield Pickett
(Barbara Littauer), a second daughter,
Andrea, March 4.

Sally Peck sends her greetings from the
Munich (Germany) Air Base, where she is
doing Red Cross work. "To see this base and
its living conditions for the men, one would
never believe that this was the conquering
army, no spoils here for the victor, all spoiled
for themselves about the last day of the war
by the 8th Air Force." Sally's address is:
American Red Cross, Hq. 60th Troop Car-
rier GP, APO 407-A % PM, New York,
N.Y.

Married: Madeleine Proctor to the Rev.
Donald Robertson Woodward, April 9.
Jacqueline Proctor de Brun '40, was her
sister's maid of honor. Mr. Woodward is
rector of the Church of the Incarnation in
Lynn.

Jane Russell Brown writes, "I have been in
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, for almost two years,
working for UNRA in the Health Division,
excellent work has been done by our doctors,
particularly in plastic surgery."

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. John White (Anne
Simpson), a third daughter, Katharine,
February 9. The twin girls are now three
years old.

1939

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Howard B. Duell
Jr. (Sarah Bradley), a daughter, Patricia
Louise, October 27, 1946.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. John B. Nunez
(Joyce Curran), a daughter, Lee Ann, Feb-
ruary 1.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Worthen
(Nancy England), a daughter, Sarah Wash-
burn, April 7.

Engaged: Marjorie MacMullen to Lt.
Knox Freytag, AUS, MC. Marjorie is serving
as a clinical psychologist for the veterans
language clinic at the Massachusetts General
Hospital, Boston, and in the same capacity
at Cushing Veteran's Administration at
Framingham.

Engaged: Ann Oakman to Frank Keegan.

Married: Frances Cross to Dr. Francis
Seymour Jones, April 19.

1940

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Howard
Nutting (Mary Howard), 157 Institution
Ave., Newton Center.

Ellen Alden Reed reports the purchase of a
home in Detroit, 19979 Ward Ave., Zone 21.
She hopes to see any alumnae who live in
that vicinity.

Carolyn Cross Robbins is living in Geneva,
111., where her husband has a position as a
Research Engineer for Operadio Co. She
has been elected the new president of the
Chicago Abbot Club.

Married: Barbara Fowler to Ex-Capt.
Robert C. Borden Jr., May 17, 1946. Ad-
dress: 16 Sherman Ave., Glen Ridge, N.J.

Nancy Harrison completed her three
years' course of training at Children's Hos-
pital, Boston, March 1. She is returning
there to work as a staff nurse.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Guy de Brun
(Jacqueline Proctor), a second child, a son,
Harlan, in March.

Libby Travis Sollenberger is enjoying life
in Hawaii. She writes, "Harold is stationed
here at the Naval Air Station, Kaneohe,
Hawaii, flying patrol bombers. I am keeping
busy washing diapers, painting and decorat-
ing the apartment my husband built, and
diving into my job as station organist and
choir director. I also have two piano students
and four organ students. Eighteen-months-
old Robin is known as a little Indian and
his favorite sport is riding the surf board in
front of Da-da!"

Born: To Dr. and Mrs. William H. Ainslie
(Nancy Wilson), a son, William Horn Ainslie
Jr., February 22.

Joan Webster is working as a receptionist
at the Waltham Screw Co.

Engaged: Beverley Winslow to William
Stark Hansen.

Married: Christine Robinson to Vance
Fisher Likins Jr., February 15.

1941

Class Fund Secretary: Mrs. Frederick S.
Kremer (Sue Long), 130 East 75th St., New
York, N. Y.

Engaged: Harriet Beach to William Illing-
worth Zeitung.

Engaged: Nancy Eccles to Reginald
Roome Jr. She plans a June wedding. Mr.
Roome is an instructor in St. George's
School, of which her father is headmaster.

Married: Eleanor Rafton to Harold Na-
thaniel Gordon, February 16.

Sue Long Kremer is assistant director of
publicity at the Hotel Plaza, New York.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Edgar J. Wicker
(Dorothy White), a son, Robert Crawford,
March 24.

Polly Packard Blackmore's two-year-old
son Paul, died very suddenly on February

23. She has a small daughter, Laura Lucille,
ten months old.

Please send wedding invitations or an-
nouncements to the Alumnae Office.

1942
Fifth Reunion

Members of the Class of '42: Just how
often have you thought of Abbot in the last
five years? And just how many Abbot class-
mates do you think of or actually see these
days?

If your answers to these questions are what
I think they are, then it is high time we had a
reunion. This five-year mark is such an im-
portant one. If we don't make the effort to
get together now, you know we never will.
So do plan to be on deck for our fifth reunion!

Jeanne Bowersox
287 Willow St.
New Haven, Conn.
Reunion Chairman

Mary Louise Bertucio not certain about
reunion. She is in Medical School at the
University of Vermont and expects finals
around June 1. She finished Vassar with
Gretchen Roemer and Frannie Flint. Loves
medical school but is plenty busy, (propor-
tion of women to men in first year is 9-3 1 , so
should be interesting!).

Mary Margaret Boynton McPherson can't
come to reunion, she will be moving to
another house in Williamstown, where she
will be until September.

Suzanne Bates Heath not sure about re-
union. She must attend three weddings and a
graduation in June. If they get a car there is
a better chance. She is kept busy with her
one and one-half year old baby girl.

Gloria Caldarone definitely planning to
come.

Louise Clark Gilland writes from Tokyo,,
where her husband is stationed in the Army
of Occupation, "We are stationed about 50
miles north of Tokyo, at an outpost. All
around are rice paddies as far as you can see.
The town we're near was bombed on the
very last day of the war, as there were several
munitions factories here. We have an apart-
ment in a remodeled Jap house and there are
two other nice couples with us. Life isn't

exactly gay here. We have each two Jap girls
and a houseboy, which is sort of ridiculous,
but we're taking full advantage of it. I stud-
ied Japanese for three months, enough to
make my girls understand. Flower arranging
is another fascinating subject. There are
almost 50 dependents and many children in
our area. We are fairly well although we all
miss fresh milk terribly. Would love to hear
from my classmates!"

Address: Mrs. James W. Gilland, % Lt.
J. W. Gilland, 027484, 82d A. A. Bu., A P O
201-3, % PM, San Francisco, Calif.

Patricia Daniels Hanson is undecided about
reunion but she "would like nothing better
than to go East and see Abbot and the girls
once more. There are so many things to be
considered when you have a family!" Her
son is 14 months old.

Mary Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham can't
come 'cause her husband is going into the
Navy in June, and she is expecting in Sep-
tember. She wants to be remembered to
everyone. She has been out West.

Dorothy Erkert can't come. She is doing
professional Girl Scouting and May 31 will
find her busy with last-minute camp details.
She loves her job, something new every day.

Mary Ellen Finneran is definitely coming.
She is working at Phillips Exeter Academy
and loves it, even if it is "the enemy camp."

Diantha Hamilton McDowell definitely
coming. Her sister graduates this year.

Betty Hardy Verdery not sure about re-
union. Bangor, Maine is so far away!

Margaret McFarlin definitely coming. She
is doing staff nursing at North Conway,
N. H.j and loves her work and the skiing.

Ruth Rathbone Hildreth definitely coming,
can hardly wait.

Florence Shaw was married on November
2, 1946, to Ronald Floyd Sickler. He is a
student at Rutgers College after four years
in the navy.

Ann Taylor coming. She graduated from
Swarthmore in February and has helped her
mother since then. She expects to work in
New York this summer, and wants to take
some courses at Columbia for her master's.
She loved Swarthmore, as they all do.

Thirsa Sands Fuiks' daughter, Susan Arden,
was born on April 16.

Margaret Sime was married on November
2, 1946, to Niels Espeland, in East Africa.
She writes of exciting new experiences. "We
are in our own house, not at the mine, but

300 feet above it, off in the bush and in the
loveliest spot you can imagine. We had a
funny experience when we went out on the
plains. On our way home after dark, we saw
a large lump on the road ahead, but couldn't
make out what it was. It rose slowly, walked
to the side of the road, to glare into the head-
lights. Then we saw it was a leopard and we
were delighted!" Buhemba Mines, Box 36,
Musoma, Tanganyika, East Africa.

Rose Wind is engaged to James J. O. Stone
plans to be married on June 1.

Juliette Weston Suhr lives in California, is
expecting in August.

1943

Married: Dorothy Barlow to John E. Gay-
ton, May 11, 1946. Dorothy is at present on
the faculty of Simmons College as Assistant
in the Chemistry Dept. She also does proof-
reading and copy editing for the Journal of
the American Chemical Society.

Engaged: Catherine Feeney to Joseph
Powell Flynn.

Married : Patricia Pettengill to John Tuck-
er Whitaker, April 19. Ann Loughridge was
one of her bridesmaids.

Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Hibshman
(Winifred Tucker), a son, Joell Randolph,
February 17.

Engaged: Helen Sedgwick Barss to David
B. Weden Jr. A June wedding is planned.

Married: Joan Holden to Charles Nicholas
Remy, April 9.

Married: Sylvia Ann Peters to Robert
Dean Agler, April 5.

1944

Married: Ruth Kirstein to Daniel Tur-
kanis.

Margaret Travis plans to spend her sum-
mer vacation from Vassar in Hawaii with
her sister, Libby Travis Sollenberger.

Engaged: Nancy Baylor to Edward Filene
Little. Nancy is planning a wedding on
June 7.

Married: Charlotte Trow to Earl Albert
Young, April 19.

1945

Married: June Livermore to Harold Reid
Jr., January 25.

Engaged : Helen Norris to Bernard Clifford
Stearns.

Hilary Paterson has been elected president
of her class at Vassar College.

Mary Lou Stegner writes, "I am in my
sophomore year at the University of Michi-
gan. I begin concentration next year and I
have chosen French as my major and Span-
ish as my minor. During my two summers
since graduation I have been doing play-
ground and camp work. I saw my roommate,
Molly Robbins, while in New York, and
Cynthia Smith stopped here to see me during
her Easter vacation."

Engaged: Virginia Ann Walen (aff. '45) to
George Baldwin Walker.

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Shirley Som-
mer, 1367 Brown Hills Rd., Rockford, 111.

1946

Dear '46ers: Remember our resolutions!
Class of '46 will have a huge reunion or die in
the attempt! We've just got to make this the
biggest celebration possible. I know you are
all very busy with college, and May 3 1 is near
exam time, but if you can get a day or so,
come to Abbot. Wouldn't you like to go back
to the "Circle" and see how our magnolia is
thriving? Wouldn't it be fun to reminisce
with the faculty and Abbot gals? Let's meet
at Baronial. If we are going to "march to-
gether ever on throughout our future days"
we can do that only by turning up for re-

union, and cooperating with the Bulletin!
Hope to see you all,

Sally Allen
Briarcliff Junior College
Briarcliff Manor, N. Y.
Reunion Chairman

Planning to attend reunion are: Cynthia
Noone, recently initiated into Alpha Phi, a
national fraternity; Louise Doyle; Barbara
Graf; Sally North hopes to have Patty
Keefer with her; Nancy Thomas who has
announced her engagement to Arthur Whit-
comb, brother of Hope Whitcomb; Marian
Troub.

Mary Howe writes that the reunion in
Boston was loads of fun, she saw Gail Sulli-
van, Ellen Brumbach, Susie Wright, Betty
Keefer and Luty Robertson.

Frannie Little is at Michigan where she
has met Mary Lou Stegner, who is majoring
in French.

Laurie Woodruff is living at the Three
Arts Club in New York, studying at the Art
Students League.

Margie Sommer is pledged Pi Beta Phi at
Rollins. "G.B." Wright is pledged Chi
Omega at Rollins.

Married: Gertrude Stearns (aff. '46) to
John Heywood, February 27. Deborah Wig-
gin was one of her bridesmaids.

Class Fund Secretary: Miss Mary Burton,
33 Afterglow Way, Montclair, N. J.

Faculty Notes

Miss Hearsey is expected to return from Bermuda in time for Com-
mencement.

Miss Eleanor Tucker has been appointed from the faculty to represent
Abbot at the Oxford Summer School gathering of representatives of Ameri-
can schools who opened their doors to English children during the war.
Funds raised at that time and not expended are being used to entertain
partially as the guests of Great Britain those who will go from the American
schools. Miss Tucker will leave on May 31, and be abroad for six weeks.

RITE news about yourself and others for the October Bulletin. Tear
out and mail before September 15, 1947, to the Alumnae Office, Abbot
Academy, Andover, Mass.

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